Aviation
Flying car completes inter-city flight in record time, 142 safe landings
In the 21st century, cars can now fly.
At least AirCar, a flying car that takes less than three minutes to transition to driving mode once on the ground, performed a 35-minute flight between the international airports of Nitra and Bratislava in Slovakia recently.
According to Interesting Engineering, the latest flight of the AirCar saw it perform its first inter-city trip and ace its 142nd successful landing, bringing it another step closer to production.
“This flight starts a new era of dual transportation vehicles. It opens a new category of transportation and returns the freedom originally attributed to cars back to the individual,” said Professor Klein after exiting the AirCar cockpit in Bratislava.
The AirCar “has turned science fiction into a reality,” added Anton Zajac, the co-founder of Klein Vision.
The AirCar is a technology that is truly representative of its name. Once it had landed in Bratislava’s international airport on June 28, the vehicle folded its wing, drew in its tail, and was driven by its inventor to downtown Bratislava.
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