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A Flying Car!

June 11th, 2009 by Nadja

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When I was a kid, I used to dream up things like this and draw them during dull classes. The flying car, the car that can swim under water, a city on the moon…

My friends and I truly believed that when we grow up, these things will indeed exist.

And now, look at this: The flying car, at last! Brought to us by Terrafugia, a company founded by award-winning MIT aeronautical engineers. It’s name is also a beauty, it is called “The Transition” and can actually legally drive on roads as well as fly. This is so cool!

The training only takes 20 hours and you can then fly your Transition and drive it home after landing. It costs around 200′000 Dollars.

Thank you, Pascal, who is always on top of all the trends in the aerospace industry.

6 Responses to “A Flying Car!”

  1. Sandro Says:

    Gabs schon mal in den Fünzfigern: Aerocar hiess es – und war ein Flop.

  2. InstructorJosh Says:

    Be careful about calling it a flying car. The designers insist it is a roadable airplane. Flying cars haven’t succeeded because their designers were trying to make a car fly, rather than make an airplane drive, like the Terrafugia.

  3. thanh Says:

    ich finde es wirklich cooool!
    langsam glaube ich daran, dass alle meine weiteren “schnaps-ideen” mal wirklichkeit werden. die hoffnung bleibt!

  4. Gery Says:

    ……… manche Hybride machen keinen Sinn, das ist einer davon.
    Nicht Fisch nicht Fleisch.
    Gery

  5. Zashkaser Says:

    Interesting site, but much advertisments on him. Shall read as subscription, rss.

  6. Bill Yanick Says:

    Found your great blog by accident!!All good info here so I’ll bookmark you.Thanx Bill

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