The Citroën DS is a French car produced between 1955 and 1975.
Designed by Flaminio Bertoni, it has a daring line and includes many innovative technologies, such as hydropneumatic suspension, swivel headlights, a power-assisted gearbox with hydraulic control or the display of the braking distance associated with the speed.
The flying DS can be seen in the movie "Fantomas se déchaîne" in 1965.
The DS-Fantomas is a fictional flying variant of the Citroën DS, a French automobile manufactured from 1955 to 1975. The DS-Fantomas was depicted in operation by infamous fictional villain “Fantômas” as a getaway vehicle in the 1965 French movie Fantômas se déchaîne (Fantomas Unleashed). In this movie, Fantômas runs to a nondescript-looking white Citroën DS in the mountains. He then drives onto a paved runway, deploys the vehicle’s wings, empennage, and twin rocket engines, and then soars into the sky.
The DS is a front-wheel drive luxury car that French automotive manufacturer Citroën introduced on October 6, 1955 at the Paris Motor Show. The futuristic vehicle, designed by famed Italian painter, sculptor, and architect Flaminio Bertoni, immediately captivated the imaginations of all who saw its elegant lines and learned of its advanced features. These features included 4-wheel disc brakes, a power-assisted gearbox, swivel headlights, hydro-pneumatic suspension, adjustable height, and a braking distance indicator. Citroën took 12,000 orders on the first day of the show. With a production run of two decades and rave reviews of all its variants, the DS is one of the most successful automobiles in history.
In the movie Fantômas se déchaîne, the flying variant of the DS features a low-mounted swept main wing that deploys from the car’s lower body just behind the front wheels, a V-tail empennage that rises out of the top portion of its swept-back rear, and twin rocket motors that extend outward just above the rear bumper. The aircraft systems are deployed and retracted by using sliders on the passenger-side console, and it is flown using the car’s standard controls, including the steering wheel.
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