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...Technology-trained engineers is trying to go where no corporation has gone before: building a profitable business selling flying cars . The Terrafugia Transition seats two and can take off and land from more than 5,000 public U.S. airfields. It can be driven...
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San Francisco Chronicle
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...Transition, a relatively low hurdle for pilots. In this undated photo provided by Terrafugia Inc., the company's prototype flying car, dubbed the Transition, travels down a street with its wings folded. The vehicle has two seats, four wheels and wings that...
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L.A. Daily News
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_20341523/flying-car-gets-closer-reality-test-flight?source=rss
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...different properties, all while giving a breathtaking aerial tour for the customers. Also, people who just want to buy a flying car. “We’ve noticed in our order backlog there are actually a fair number of people who are not currently pilots who are putting...
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Russia Today
http://rt.com/news/transition-flying-car-plane-392/
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...York International Auto Show on April 4. Such autopilot technology could also prove necessary for any futuristic vision of flying cars that won't give air traffic controllers nightmares. "Your co-pilot would be the systems of the airplane itself to the point...
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46969099/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
www.euronews.com This rather unusual looking car can reach speeds of up to 180 kilometres an hour but that is not what makes it special. All is revealed when it unfurls it propellors; this car can also fly. The Personal Air and Land Vehicle or PAL-V is a gyrocopter that can both fly and is allowed on the road. So what do you need to drive this machine? Robert Dingemanse, CEO and founder of Dutch company PAL-V, said: "A normal drivers licence. And for flying a personal or private pilot's licence and that's something you get in around 20 to 30 hours worth of lessons. So it's pretty easy in a gyrocopter. It's a gyrocopter and that's the easiest way of flying, also the safest way of flying." If the PAL-V sounds like the answer to the traffic jam, there is a hitch. It requires 165 metres of runway to take-off, 30 metres to land and can only be flown from an airport. It is expected to retail for somewhere between 250000 and 300000 euros. But the PAL-V is not the only flying car - or driving plane if you prefer - coming on to the market. The US-based firm Terrafugia have just carried out successful tests on their own street-legal plane called the Transition. Terrafugia say around 100 orders have already been placed for the car, which will cost roughly the same as its European cousin. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com
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...cars aren't just science fiction anymore. Woburn, Massachusetts-based Terrafugia Inc. said Monday that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year. The vehicle...
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Sci-Tech Today
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The kickoff for the 2012 New York International Auto Show featured a car most of us will never drive, and even one that flies. (April 4) Subscribe to the Associated Press: bit.ly Download AP Mobile: www.ap.org Associated Press on Facebook: apne.ws Associated Press on Twitter: apne.ws Associated Press on Google+: bit.ly
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...feet. (AP Photo/Terrafugia.com) MANDATORY CREDIT Woburn, Mass.-based Terrafugia Inc. said Monday that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year. The vehicle...
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GazetteNet | Northampton, MA
http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/04/04/flying-car-closer-to-reality
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...to make sure car flyers have coverage. “We wouldn’t let them out on their own trying to secure an insurance program for a flying car,” says Richard Gersh, the company’s vice president of business development. “We can’t discuss specifics because we’re still...
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Smartmoney.com
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...there have been about 100 deposits of US$ 10,000 each. The Transition flying car will be unveiled at the New York International Auto Show this week. Does this mean that in the future—like 15 minutes of fame—everyone would have their own flying car?...
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Asian Correspondent
http://asiancorrespondent.com/79631/coming-soon-the-first-flying-car/
Insider.Autos4sale.com -- Auto News The Transition, a Roadable Aircraft made by Terrafugia, Inc., has the distinction of being the first ever FUV - Flying Utility Vehicle. It drives on the roadway like a Car, flies in the air like a Plane, and parks in your garage like any other road vehicle, eliminating any doubt that it is a legitimate Flying Car. With 4-tires that provide Rear Wheel Drive during highway transportation, and wings that unfold and lock into position for air flight, this automobile was designed to provide its operator with unrestricted freedom, flexibility, and fun.
The Pal-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) is the worlds first practical flying car design. Personal Air and Land Car. From rescue and emergency agencies and surveillance companies to small military options, recreational flight and daily commutes. The Pal-V offers a whole new range of possibilities for our future. In this video the Pal-V is being tested at the military Gilze-Rijen Airbase in Brabant the Netherlands with full support from the Dutch government and Dutch military. Skipping traffic jams altogether would be a dream for many. And Pal-V wants to offer this in an affordable package coming from a factory in 2014.
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...many driveways. It's expected to cost $279,000. And it won't help if you're stuck in traffic. The car needs a runway. The flying car has always had a special place in the American imagination. Inventors have been trying to make them since the 1930s, according...
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124324/Transition-flying-car-close-reality.html?ITO=1490
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...the Jetsons with everyone driving one in five years? No," admitted Winfield Keller, vice president of The International Flying Car Association, a trade group. "But we are getting to the point where 10, maybe 15 years from now that the people owning and operating...
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A car which can fly for up to 315 miles at speeds of 110mph, has been produced in the Netherlands.
A flying car, which can fly for up to 315 miles at speeds of 110mph, has been produced in Holland. Report by Sophie Foster. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com
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We shot some footage in preparation for the promotional video for the 2012 New York International Auto Show and thought it would be fun to share a rough clip ahead of the show. See our website www.terrafugia.com for more information about the event and other news.
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A practical flying car with everyman usability has so far eluded the public, but we may have already been introduced to a design that could lead to a breakthrough. Some of the major challenges of producing a point-to-point simple and safe to operate vehicle are technological in nature. Autonomous navigation (enter the destination, press a button, and allow the vehicle to navigate, communicate with, and autonomously avoid other aircraft) may be one key to safely organizing masses of flying vehicles in the same airspace. And as society progresses, the gap between the dream and reality may be shrinking.
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www.ted.com A flying car -- it's an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped the question, asking Why not build a plane that you can drive?TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com
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...aircraft” made the flight on March 5 that same year at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York, lasting 37 seconds. Flying car approved for roads Two years after its debut on air, the flying car has now declared officially road legal, meaning it could...
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The Money Times
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...Traffic Safety Administration for use on roads and granted it special exemptions as a "roadable aircraft." Terrafugia's flying car called the Transition is designed to seamlessly shift from a airplane to car in a few minutes. According to Terrafugia it "combines...
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International Business Times
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/175751/20110707/flying-car-terrafugia-transition.htm
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...route by continuing their journey on land. Related links Terrafugia 'flying cars' could go on sale in 2011 Terrafugia's flying car makes maiden voyage Terrafugia's flying car flies (photos) The Transition is tentatively priced around $250,000. Terrafugia...
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CNET
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An Israeli company is working on a design for a flying-car that boasts the manoeuvrability of a helicopter but without the restrictions of the large propellers and tail rotor. The futuristic design could be used in high-rise city areas, and with the potentially life-saving ability to rescue people from fires.
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October 13, 2010 - Steve Saint of I-TEC drove his road-legal flying car from Florida to Oshkosh this summer. Since then the FAA has also issued the Maverick a S-LSA aircraft airworthiness certificate. I-TEC hopes to be in production by EAA Oshkosh 2011.
Steve Saint has invented a flying car. You may recall the story of Steve's father Nate Saint, who was a missionary pilot. In 1956, he and four other missionaries were killed by Waodani Indians during an effort to make peaceful contact with them. We have all been inspired by their sacrifice and the courage shown by their family members who actually returned to the Waodani Indians with the good news of Jesus Messiah. Steve is now himself a missionary pilot, and has been a huge help to CBR in setting up our airborne RCC campaign, which features huge abortion photos on airplane tow banners. Now he's invented a flying car!
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...who were in India last month. "They questioned the move as there is no law under which a director of flying training can carry out checks or demote chief flying instructors,'' said a DGCA official. Says a CFI working in a flying school in south India, "Last...
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Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Chief-flying-instructors-see-red-over-failed-tests/articleshow/6587771.cms
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The Jetsons-inspired future that we all dream of inched a little closer to reality today with news that the Terrafugia Transition, a flying car developed by MIT-trained aeronautical engineers and MBA's, will begin limited production in late 2011. The
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Fast Company
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WOBURN — The company developing the world’s first “flying car’’ said yesterday that low-volume production of the hybrid vehicle will take off in Massachusetts, perhaps by the end of next year.
Terrafugia said it considered several other locations around
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Boston Globe
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Be the first on your block to get the Terrafugia 'flying car.'
After several years in development, Terrafugia's "flying
car" could be available for sale before the end of next year.
Setting up shop in its new manufacturing plant in Woburn, Mass.,
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CNET
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The Record
http://news.therecord.com/article/766945
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...FLYING CAR: Terrafugia's flying car will hit the roads, and the air, by late next year. (Photo: AP Photo/Terrafugia) The Jetsons predicted that we'd have flying cars by at least 2062, and Back to the Future promised them to us by 2015. It turns out that reality...
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Mother Nature Network
http://www.mnn.com/transportation/alternative-transportation/stories/flying-car-to-become-a-reality-in-2011
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...The Jetsons predicted that we'd have flying cars by at least 2062, and Back to the Future promised them to us by 2015. It turns out that reality may, for once, outpace fiction.A small, privately held company called Terrafugia has recently gained FAA approval...
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/28/flying-car-transition-technology-terrafugia.html?feed=rss_mostemailed
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...It's basically a car that has foldout wings, which can then be used to take off and land at airports. Not quite the Jetsons flying car of the future, but it's progress, right? Commuting will be so cool...you can look down on the drivers on the clogged freeways...
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Techdirt
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100630/11220610024.shtml
The FAA has just given the green light to Terrafugia's Transition, a flying car the company calls a "roadable aircraft." Transition will have a cruising speed of 115 mph, will include a 20 gallon gas tank, with a range of 460 miles. While on ground it can drive on the highway at normal speeds and will get 30 miles per gallon. The first roadable aircraft will include airbags and a sales price of $194000. So far 70 people have pre-ordered Terrafugia's Transition.
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