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Flying car
flying cars or airplanes, which on the road feel as confident as in heaven ... It would seem, is still many years will remain a fantasy of a handful of individual enthusiasts.
But the US company Terrafugia has tried to refute this assumption by providing the current Auto Show in New York is the prototype of the vehicle sredstva.
Estimated cost of the car-plane Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is 279,000 dollarov.
It is expected that the first deliveries will begin later this year. Will the idea be a commercial success - the question vremeni.
Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is positioned by the manufacturer as a personal 2-seater aircraft, which can not only fly, but also to travel by road dorogam.
The maximum flight speed of 185 km / h, range - 787 km.
But on the ground it is a miracle of technology behaves very modestly, the maximum acceleration is only 105 km / ch.
To the passengers feel safe, the manufacturer equipped vehicle parachute, which in an emergency situation "will drop" car-plane on zemlyu.
The representatives of Terrafugia said that to move on Transition owner will have to obtain a license Pilot Sport.
For this will have to spend only 20 hours on the training flights. See also: Invisible Mercedes already a reality? Volkswagen Mini-Gol - Vehicles for dwarfs. Swede survived after 2 months in the snow-strewn car. In Amsterdam, launched a floating bus.
Source: autoplus.su/details/innovation/4028-terrafugia-transition-flying-car-letayuschiy-avtomobil-za-279-tysyach.html