BBC : AirCar takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft.
Flying cars are real. One just completed a 35-minute test flight.
Mercredi 30 juin 2021 ((rezonodwes.com))–
A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between two airports in Slovakia.
The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft, according to BBC.
It is equipped with a BMW engine, runs on regular petrol-pump fuel and has clocked 40 hours in the air. Stefan Klein created the aircraft and said it could fly up to 600 miles at about 8,200 feet.
Klein tested the aircraft himself, flying into town for reporters and residents to watch. But the aircraft isn’t ready to flown out of your driveway just yet. It cannot takeoff and land vertically and requires a runway.
The aircraft can reach about 106 mph and is described as a « pleasant » and « normal » ride according to Klein. Klein said the aircraft took two years to built and about $2.3 million.
Anton Zajac, an adviser and investor in Klein Vision, told the BBC that the company hopes to attract a small percentage of global airline or taxi sales.
« There are about 40,000 orders of aircraft in the United States alone, » Zajac said. « If we convert 5% of those, to change the aircraft for the flying car – we have a huge market.
