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FUTURE FLIGHT
BY JULIE SUMMERS WALKER
WHERE'S MY FLYING CAR?
SLOVAKIAN AIRCAR MAKES ITS MAIDEN FLIGHT
IN 1940, HENRY FORD SAID: " MARK MY WORD, A COMBINATION AIRPLANE AND
motorcar is coming. You may smile but it is coming. " Well, Mr. Ford-to quote Rodney
Dangerfield in Caddyshack- " We're waiting.... "
Will the Klein Vision AirCar win the race to be the first viable flying car in this
century? The latest generation flying car from designer Stefan Klein performed two
1,500-foot-agl flights in the pattern at Slovakia's Piestany Airport. Its November 3,
2020, maiden flight puts the AirCar
at the forefront of an industry where
flying cars have been more fantasy
than reality. The two-seater reportedly can achieve 107 knots with a
four-cylinder BMW engine. It can
transform from car to airplane in
about three minutes, and the company says it will have a model with a
300-horsepower ADEPT engine in
six months.
The first flying car was designed
in 1949 by Mort Taylor. Only six
were ever built. Few viable designs
were introduced in the ensuing years, although the military tried out a flying Jeep. In
2009, Terrafugia introduced the Transition, designed by enterprising Massachusetts
Institute of Technology students. More than 10 years later, the Transition is still in
testing and Terrafugia is owned by Geely, a Chinese company that owns the Lotus and
Volvo brands, among others.
A Dutch company is producing the PAL-V Liberty autogyro or gyrocopter, and
claims it will be in full production in 2021 in India. Then there's the Sampson Switchblade, Porsche and Boeing are working together, Hyundai is designing flying taxis,
and Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce are getting in the game. Well? We're waiting....
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Flight Training - January/February 2021 - Intro
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