Yes, it's here, my flying car has arrived. The Terrafugia Transition delivers what we've all wanted, a way to rise above the traffic jams but still to drive along the open roads.
Well, OK, it's not quite the completed article yet, it's a bit of a kludge, but the Terrafugia Transition is at least almost all of the way there, to the flying car.
Transition lifted off the runway for the first time at New York’s
Plattsburgh International Airport. The Transition is the first
“roadable airplane” that is completely self-contained in ground mode;
previous attempts at flying cars required the wings or other components
to be trailered on the ground.
This is what the Terrafugia Transition offers:
Terrafugia's Transition is part-car, part-airplane
and as of this month, a flight-worthy creation. The vehicle
successfully completed its first test flight earlier this month, the
company announced on Wednesday.
The
flight was short — just 37 seconds — and right over the runway, but
as Anna Mracek Dietrich, a Terrafugia co-founder and its chief
operating officer, pointed out, flying wasn't the key goal.
And this is what the Terrafugia Transition actually looks like in action:
Looks good, don't it?
As you can imagine this has really hit the news.
Terrafugia Transition makes "flying car" a reality | GlobalMotors.net By Patrick Westbrook First Flight of the Terrafugia Transition Its a car and a plane in one. Yesterday after months of testing the Transition made the first flight from the. Plattsburgh International Airport in NY. For its first flight, the Transition was … |
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Video: Terrafugia's flying car lifts off By Joseph L. Flatley We've had a lot of fun with Terrafugia over the last year or so, but we weren't exactly holding our breath in anticipation of the Transition's maiden flight. That said, we're definitely psyched to hear that the "roadable aircraft" went … |
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First successful flight of Terrafugia flying car • VideoSift … By kronosposeidon (http://www.videosift.com/member... From uploader: "Not a flying car, but a roadable aircraft, the Terrafugia Transition took flight for the first time March 5, 2009." Comments subscribe to this feed. Submit Comment. log in or register to submit new comment … |
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Terrafugia developing the Transition, a weird-looking flying car … It may be decades from now before we see flying cars go mainstream but a company called Terrafugia made the Transition—a plane that looks like … |
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Is it a car? Or, is it an airplane? It's The Transition! iTWire – Australia … The Transition Roadable Aircraft is: “Taking advantage of new FAA regulations in the Light Sport Aircraft category, Terrafugia developed the Transition® … |
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