FAA Approves Two-Seat Flying Car (No, Seriously)
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Jul 1 2010, 6:07 PM
This is no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang deal - this is the real thing.
The FAA has given its approval to the Terrafugia Transition, a two-seated flying car developed over the past four years by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Transition is a vehicle that runs on normal unleaded gasoline and can drive at highway speeds of up to 115 mph. It has a pair of wings that fold out and turn the vehicle into a light sport aircraft. To be flown as an aircraft, the Transition requires a runway of 500 meters, or one third of a mile), and can only be flown in and out of designated airports.
The retail price of the vehicle is $194,000, and it is expected to be available by the end of 2011. In order to fly it, however, one must have a light sport aircraft license, which requires 20 hours of logged flight time.
[video and image via the Terrafugia website]
This is no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang deal - this is the real thing.
The FAA has given its approval to the Terrafugia Transition, a two-seated flying car developed over the past four years by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Transition is a vehicle that runs on normal unleaded gasoline and can drive at highway speeds of up to 115 mph. It has a pair of wings that fold out and turn the vehicle into a light sport aircraft. To be flown as an aircraft, the Transition requires a runway of 500 meters, or one third of a mile), and can only be flown in and out of designated airports.
The retail price of the vehicle is $194,000, and it is expected to be available by the end of 2011. In order to fly it, however, one must have a light sport aircraft license, which requires 20 hours of logged flight time.
[video and image via the Terrafugia website]
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