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February 16, 2006

Pigs may not fly yet... but cars do!

Looking for a different kind of hybrid SUV? Check out the new Transition Personal Air Vehicle, an SUV with retractable wings, which will be exhibited at a Wisconsin air show over the summer. This is an SUV that drives as well as flies. It's designed by Terrafugia, a start-up founded by some super-smart MIT grad students:

"The Transition Personal Air Vehicle is designed for 100- to 500-mile jumps. It will carry two people and luggage on a single tank of premium unleaded gas. It will also come with an electric calculator (to help fine-tune weight distribution), airbags, aerodynamic bumpers and of course a GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation unit.

The company hopes to eventually have the vehicle classified so that it can be piloted with a light sport aircraft license. No complete prototype exists yet, but the company has a one-fifth scale wind tunnel model (along with computer simulations) and will use the $30,000 from the Lemelson prize to build something to show off at the Oshkosh show. A fully operational prototype is expected to come out in 2008 or earlier, according to the company, while Transition vehicles are expected to hit the road, and the sky, by 2009 or 2010."

Anyway, the article from CNET lists a whole smorgasbord of other flying contraptions, like aerial taxis and the funky AirScooter. You can also check out a QuickTime movie of the flying car at the Terrafugia site.

Tags: flyingcar innovation Terrafugia

[image: Terrafugia]

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