Flying Car Gets Closer To Production

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 7th 2009 at 12:02AM

When it comes to flying cars, it looks like the Transition from Terrafugia might be one of the ones most likely to actually be available to consumers soon. We've been following this story for a couple of years along with some other projects but the engineers behind this one have persevered where others have failed.. In 2006 some graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began working on the Transition Personal Air Vehicle. The two-seater craft can go from being a plane to a car in less than 30 seconds. The wings can be quickly folded and stowed for road use. In the sky it can cruise up to 450 miles at over 115 mph.

Aero-News Network reports that the Terrafugia Transition prototype has had completed the first phase of its four-stage test program, logging in 28 flights. The second prototype will take into account all modifications deemed necessary after the first phase. Terrafugia is still planning first delivery for 2011 and the projected purchase price is $194,000. Check out an Aero-News video of the Terrrafugia Transition after the jump.

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