Sam Bousfield, inventor of the Switchblade™ spoke to a crowd during a forum at the recent Golden West Regional Fly-In and Air Show in Yuba City with a scale model at his side.   What if you owned a vehicle that could take you "down the road" as well as up, up and away, into the friendly skies? Parked in your home garage, it would await your plans for a road and/or air trip. Just pack, load and go. Forget about long waiting lines at the airport terminal. No more boarding passes and passing through security. No sitting at the departure gate hoping your plane leaves on time. You can get above all of that without leaving the comfort of your own vehicle. The Switchblade™ Multi-mode Vehicl

  Samson Motors, Incorporated will be debuting their ground-test vehicle for the Switchblade Multi-Mode Vehicle (also known as the “Flying Motorcycle”) at the Golden West Regional Fly In and Air Show “Higher Ever Higher” held at the Yuba County Airport this weekend. Samson Motors is a Placer County company, and the test vehicle was constructed in the Auburn area. “Our tube-frame test vehicle is a work in progress, helping us finalize drive train and suspension systems for the future flying prototype”, said Sam Bousfield, Samson CEO and Switchblade designer. “As a kit aircraft that both drives and flies, we will be saving people money and time, allowing them to go directly to their desti

A high-speed rail connecting Sacramento with the Bay Area could take years, if not a decade. But on Sam Bousfield's flying motorcycle, you would be able to make it to the Bay in less than 45 minutes. Bousfield's Meadow Vista-based company Samson Motorworks is currently creating a prototype of the hybrid motorcycle/airplane. The Switchblade Multi-Mode Vehicle is a two-passenger three-wheeled motorcycle with fully retractable wings that turns it into a plane. Well, at least it will be, said Bousfield, who hasn't yet actually built a working model. This Saturday, he will bring a quarter-scale model of his imagined vehicle to the California Auto Museum's "Born To Ride" exhibit, which will b