Thanks to Dale Amon for the link to this. However, as Dale quickly discovered, it turned out to be untrue, an example not of false prognostication, but of more recent computer graphics.

I especially like the steering wheel …

Which reminds me: Where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars!!

My point is, yes, we can scoff at the primitive ideas people did indeed have (as Dale rightly points out) circa 1950 about computers, but think how primitive our cars still are, circa 2000.

This one (thank you Dan Prinzing commenting at Transport Blog) looks quite good though.

This (thank you Tom – also commenting at Transport Blog), on the other hand, and like the one I originally wrote about, is just another clunky little airplane.

However, it looks very fetching, especially in this photo of it by Jason Bynum - which I am taking the liberty blah blah …

… - and looking very fetching counts for a lot around here.