The novel vehicle, known as Aircar, relies on a 160 horsepower BMW engine with a fixed-propeller and a ballistic parachute. A flying car prototype has completed a 35-minute test flight between two international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia. A hybrid car-airplane successfully completed its first 35-minute inter-city flight on June 28 between two airports in Slovakia: Nitra and Bratislava. The craft, which is some nine meters (30 feet) long and 8.5 meters wide, integrates propulsion and wing systems to hover and advance like a helicopter. Flying Car Prototype Makes First Successful Inter-City Flight. The vehicle is designed for fully autonomous flight from takeoff to landing, with a range of up to 50 miles (80 kilometers). "In one year, we have progressed from a conceptual design to a flying prototype," said Boeing chief technology officer Greg Hyslop. Tests will continue "to advance the safety and reliability of on-demand autonomous air transportation," the company said. But they’re still facing the biggest challenge in the process, like other builders of such flying cars: getting them registered for road use is a comparatively easy task, but obtaining air certification is an entirely different, more costly and time-consuming matter.The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft said the test was carried out Tuesday outside the US capital Washington, the company said in a statement.īoeing is among a handful of companies in the United States and around the world-including Uber and a startup backed by Google founder Larry Page-that are developing vehicles which could be used for personal air transport with autonomous navigation.īoeing NeXt, which leads the company's urban air mobility efforts, utilized Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to design and develop the prototype. “With AirCar you will arrive at your destination without the hassle of getting a ride to the airport and passing through commercial security, you can drive your AirCar to the golf course, the office, the mall or your hotel and park it in a normal parking space,” Anton Zajac, Klein Vision’s co-founder, investor and pilot, says in a statement.Īll this is amazing news – and a great accomplishment for Klein Vision. The vehicle boast a range of 1,000 km (621 miles) and a top speed of 200 kph (124.2 mph), though Klein Vision doesn’t say in which mode these figures are registered.Ĭompared to most eVTOLs, AirCar is at an advantage. The conversion takes under 3 minutes, and is possible thanks to the foldable wings and retractable rear. Meanwhile, over in China, EV maker Xpeng has unveiled a design for a new flying car that will begin mass production by 2024 and cost around 200,000. The AirCar, as you can see in the video below, is a car by land and a small airplane by air. Moreover, they’re also working on variations of this model and plan to deliver 2- and 4-seater versions, a twin-engine version and an amphibious version. Taking the prototype from idea to actual working vehicle was a matter of 18 months, so these guys (apparently) know a thing or two about a speedy delivery. Having reached this milestone with the AirCar, Klein Vision is confident it can deliver a first production model within the next six months. The test flights were conducted at Piestany Airport in Slovakia and included two takeoffs and two landings, all four successful. You can see a video of the maiden flight at the bottom of the page. It has also completed its first flight, as Klein Vision proudly announced the other day. The final AirCar prototype was introduced to the public in 2019, at the CIIE in Shanghai, China, and has been undergoing airport tests ever since.
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It has 3 wheels and a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph) on land and air.
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Lighter than the Moller PAL-V Europe BV : the PAL-V ONE 16 is a hybrid of a gyrocopter with a car. The prototype, which was first unveiled back in 2018, successfully completed its first-ever piloted test.
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Out of a desire to develop a vehicle that would travel both on land and through the air, Slovakia’s Klein Vision set out to develop what would later be called the AirCar. MACRO Industries - SkyRider is a prototype of a flying car developed by MACRO Industries, Inc. Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) hasfor the first timeawarded a safety certificate to SkyDrive, the Tokyo-based firm working on an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flying car.