Tag: Flying Cars

Most Popular Flying Car in History Hits New Reservation Milestones

Samson Sky's flying sports car – the Switchblade – has just hit two new milestones. This week they reached Reservation Position 1,500. Per the company, this translates to an average of over 4 Reservations per week, over the last 26 months. Additionally, Samson recently added the 45th co...

AirCar’s flying car completes first ever inter-city flight

AirCar, a dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle moved closer to production this week, fulfilling a key development milestone in a 35-minute flight from the international airport in Nitra to the international airport in Bratislava on June 28th, 2021. Klein Vision's patent protected AirCar completed i...

Mass Layoffs Said To Hit Terrafugia Weeks After Its Flying Car Was FAA-Approved

By Eric Tegler, forbes Most of the U.S. employees of flying car maker Terrafugia have been laid off and it will wind down U.S. operations later this year, sources say, a surprising development that comes shortly after the company received an FAA airworthiness certificate for its aircraft late l...

Terrafugia Announces FAA Special Light-Sport Airworthiness Certificate

Terrafugia, Inc. announced today that it has reached a significant milestone by obtaining an FAA Special Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) airworthiness certificate for its Transition roadable aircraft. As a unique integration of a two-seat aircraft and an automobile, the Transition is designed to me...

U.S. Air Force Funds Adaptation of Automotive Radar for Autonomous “Flying Cars”

Metawave Corporation has been awarded a prime, Phase One contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) to provide a high-precision, all-weather sensing solution for electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The initial Metawave study outlined by the contract will identify modificat...

PAL-V World’s First Flying Car Hits The Road

Who hasn't dreamed about a flying car? Taking your car for a ride in the sky?  This dream is one step closer now. After flying and driving the test prototype in 2012, PAL-V started the design of the Liberty, its commercial product. Recently the Liberty passed the stringent European road admission ...

AirCar – The Flying Car Passed Flight Tests. Next Stop: Driving a New Market

AirCar (V5) is the latest generation flying car that transforms from road vehicle into air vehicle in less than 3-minutes. Useful for leisure and self-driving journeys, and also as a commercial taxi service, the dual mode transformation vehicle can go from driving to flying mode with the click of a...

Hyundai Plans Full Lineup of Flying Cars

By Kyunghee Park, bloomberg South Korea’s biggest automaker is stepping up its pursuit of flying cars, planning a full lineup of aerial vehicles that it envisages zigzagging city skies within a decade. Hyundai Motor Group is developing models that will carry five or six people within metrop...

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