Wednesday 30 June 2010

Will This Be The One?

over many years manufactures have promised us a car/plane, will this Terrafugia Transition be the one to make it onto our roads in the future? it is a light aircraft that can fold itself up into a road-legal car is to go into production after having been given a special weight exemption by the US Federal Air Authority,
the exemption is an important one because the safety features, such as airbags, crumple zones and roll cages, that go to making a motor car street legal are just too heavy to allow any flying car qualify as a 'light sport aircraft', one that requires the most basic and therefore easy to obtain pilot's licence, drivers can be qualified to fly light sport aircraft after just 20 hours of logged flying time, once you have that, all you need to find is the £129,000 purchase price (the manufacturers are currently asking for £6,650 deposits from interested parties) and it's up, up and away,
I have heard of these car/planes or I should say in this case plane/car becoming available for so many years now, could this be the one?

No comments: