Flying car is not dream again and i am waiting for the announcement who can create electric-powered flying car. This invention of flying car is still applied to consume ordinary gasoline. And, i guess it is not so long to wait for electric-powered flying car types. That's my prediction of the electric flying car.
Finally, there is an easy car to be flown to take ordinary gasoline and it actually exists.
Guardian reported that flying car of Roadable Aircraft Transition created by an American company of Terrafugia, were airborne and it is able to switch between driving and flying in about 20 seconds.
Previously, some delusional old thinkers who appeared in Tomorrow's World or Blue Peter, showing off some floating hatchback or Cortina with wings. They boasted that it would become a reality but in fact it never existed.
Well, finally, in 2011, there are measures of other companies. This year the American company called Terrafugia will "produce low-volume" of Transition Roadable Aircraft.
This original car is not a delusional\ and it can be bought and this is actually flying car. The car was a bit like Ghostbuster vehicles with folding wings and it will be priced between 125,000 pounds and 160,000 pounds. Carl Dietrich, CEO Terrafugis hopes to sell 200 per year.
"Many people say they never thought the car was actually produced. However, we already have it and it now can drive and fly, and change between them in 20 seconds," said Dietrich.
Terrafugia (Latin for "escape from land") was founded by Dietrich and a team including to pilots and engineers aeronatics.
It was partly funded by the United States Department of Defense, and they were already secretly working on the vehicle in Woburn, Mass., since 2006, and it is now almost ready to start selling.
New Transition owner must have 20 hours of flight before getting permission mechanical flapping wings and take off.
Colonel Phil Meeter, the first person to fly the Transition in the trial in upstate New York in 2009, saying "My daughter can do this! Anyone can do it!" Meeter said.
The car has a flight range of less than 500 miles (enough for a flight from London to Zurich, Switzerland) and it will run at a speed of 115mph.
American companies were targeting to American consumers. Terrafugia flying car is equipped to accommodate luxury.
The car has a touch-screen controls in the cockpit, and "cargo area of a golf club." With wings tucked-up, transition mode can be filled by regular gasoline at the gas station and parked in the garage usual. The car also has a parachute that has a built-in
