Autarchy of the Private Cave » vehicle https://bogdan.org.ua Tiny bits of bioinformatics, [web-]programming etc Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 Old news: flying cars get real!https://bogdan.org.ua/2010/10/03/old-news-flying-cars-get-real.html https://bogdan.org.ua/2010/10/03/old-news-flying-cars-get-real.html#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:50:34 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=1133 You should already know that my preferred city vehicle is VentureOne (now called PersuHybrid, and still far from mass production – while Carver One, the original tilting three-wheeler, is now bankrupt/dead). It might be more realistic to go for Campagna’s T-Rex, which is in production since 1996.

Now, welcome the Terrafugia’s Transition transformer flying car! It can drive as a car (and is sized as a car with wings folded), and it can fly as an air-plane! Now your trip to anywhere looks like “drive to the airport – fly – land – drive to gas station – repeat as needed”. Terrafugia claims that (on average) there’s a suitable airport every 60 miles in the US. And you can fit Transition into your average garage!

That doesn’t (yet) feel like something from the future – and maybe that is why their prototype already had test flights, and they plan mass-production for 2011, and already have over 80 pre-orders.

If only it had vertical take-off… :)

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