‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market!
A Boston-area company plans to begin flight tests this year of a two-seater airplane that moonlights as a car, which some call the flying car. You sit down behind the steering wheel, drive to the runway, unfold two wings and take off. You can fly 500 miles on a tank of gas which will be regular unleaded and when it lands, the wings simply fold up and you can drive wherever you want to go. At the end of the day, you fly back, drive home and park inside your garage.
The manufacturer of this flying car built six prototypes, one of which is sitting in the EAA’s museum, but never went into production. Terrafugia, founded in 2006 by a group of MIT students, has taken deposits for more than 40 Transitions and plans to begin deliveries in 2010. The vehicles sell for $194,000.
