Terrafugia flying car could hit roads in 5 years

Terrafugia flying car

Why waste time at traffic jams when you can just fly over them. This is what what Carl Dietrich probably thought when he first got the idea of a machine that would drive on roads like a normal car and when need be, take-off to the skies. The Terrafugia Transition was thus born and now experts believe the concept could be on roads in the next five years. The Terrafugia is the first automobile that transforms into an airplane at a touch of a button and that actually works.

The car has already been given clearance in the United States and we could see the car being sold over the world in the coming years. The car is priced at $250,000 and can seat two people. The car has retractable wings which can be deployed in just 15 sec to turn it into an airplane. Once the wings are unfolded the car automatically re-routes the power to the propeller.

Terrafugia Transition

The Terrafugia can do 185 mph when in air and has a range of 800 km. On the tarmac the car can hit 100 mph. Buyers will have to under go a 20 hours training program before being handed over the keys to the flying car. A flying car makes perfect sense for India where the density of traffic in cities is more than the number of bees in a beehive. You just need to drive to the nearest airstrip, unfold the wings and off you go.

The founder of Terrafugia, Carl Dietrich quite appropriately describes it as a Transformer. “It’s like a little Transformer,” Terrafugia founder Carl Dietrich was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. The car is primarily aimed at customers in the US but across the Atlantic, people have shown interest in the flying car. 20 prospective customers from the United Kingdom have shown interest in the carbon-fibre car/airplane.

Via TOI

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