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The Milner Motors Air Car


Oh yay, another flying car story, they are always so pretty but they never can fly. The Milner Motors AirCar will debut at the New York International Auto Show, March 21-30. The Milner Motors AirCar is a four-seat advanced-composite car that is designed so that you can fly to your destination but then fold up the wings and drive it down the highway. There is a foldable main wing in the rear of the vehicle and a lifting projection in the front. It will weight around 3,000 pounds and will reportedly cruise at 200 m.p.h It has a 28-foot wingspan and on the ground the wings fold to seven feet wide. The plane is powered by two rotary engines and a separate 40 horsepower engine powers the car. The prototype they will be displaying at the car show doesn't fly, it's just meant to show that flight is possible. The flying cars are expected to cost $450,000.

[via Aero-News Network]

Reserve Your Own Flying Car

When we first heard about Terrafugia, the company developing one of the first flying cars that would also be able to drive on the roads, there was not yet a fully-functional, working prototype, but it is being built. The Transition drives like a car and can lower its 27-ft retractable wings when lift-off is required. It has a top speed of 130mph in the air, and gets about 30mpg whether flying or running on the road. Though the final designs are debuting this week, the cars will not be available to the public until 2009. You can put down a 5% deposit on the projected price of $148,000 right now to reserve one, though the final price is not guaranteed as of yet.

[via SciFi Tech]

Terrafugia Plans The Next Flying Car

Yet another flying car is entering the rapidly crowded race. This one comes from graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company Terrafugia is working on the Transition Personal Air Vehicle. The Transition is an SUV which has retractable wings and is designed for 100- to 500-mile trips. It runs on premium unleaded gas and the plan is that it can be piloted with a light sport aircraft license (it cruises at up to 12,000 sq. ft.). There isn't a full prototype yet but one is expected in 2008 or earlier with the goal of being ready for flight by 2009 or 2010.

[via Plane News]

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