Terrafugia Transition Flying Car
An MIT student has won a $30,000 inventor’s prize and started a company called Terrafugia to produce the flying car he has designed. The flying car will be called the Transition and it will meet the criteria of the FAA’s light sport aircraft. (We would post a picture, but we have not yet received permission to post the picture here. However you can view a photo by clicking here showing the Terrafugia Transition in airplane mode and clicking here to see it in the automobile mode.
Terrafugia says the vehicle should fly up to 500 miles on one tank of auto gas. There will be no IFR package required and you can expect to pay about $150,000 for the Transition.
Want to see one in person? Full scale designs have not been produced however Terrafugia says they will have a booth at Oshkosh. First deliveries are expected to begin in 2009.
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1 opinion for Terrafugia Transition Flying Car
Bill Lambert
Jan 11, 2008 at 02:08 \10\u\Friday\u
After decades of being at the mercy of rich conglomerates who would rather buy inventions and copy rights, for the sake of carrying out the agenda of their industry, instead of steady growth and solutions to problems, getting into bed with Big Oil and monopolizing the market. Its time for the pressure cooker to blow its top, take the top off and have a major pressure change until its time to simmer once again!
May the powers of the Source Guide us as we lurch in Technology, and catch up to where we should have been all along.
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