![]() Although we know little about the actual specs of this vehicle, the company states the flying car will feature a Samson 190 hp liquid-cooled three-cylinder engine using Skybrid technologies. The craft’s technical specifications state that it could go at a top flying speed of 200 miles per hour and an altitude of about 16,500 feet, or almost 20,000 meters below, where most commercial airplanes fly. This machine has a special system which blocks the dashboard in case the user presses the switch button accidentally during the flight. They named the Switchblade after the resemblance of its wings to the Swiss Army Knife, which deploy to take off or fold to ride just by pressing a button even while the car is running. You simply land, transform your flying sports car back to driving mode, the wings safely stowed and protected, and continue to your final destination.” ![]() You then fly your registered aircraft directly to the destination. Once there, the wings swing out and the tail extends in under three minutes. Related: Suzuki And SkyDrive Will Develop Flying Cars For JapanĪccording to, “The Switchblade is a three-wheel, street legal vehicle that you drive from your garage to a nearby local airport. He explains how his training enabled him to dare to try his luck in the still mostly uncharted area of flying automobiles by saying, “An architect is half engineer and half artist, and this is a fantastic combination to make an innovative approach when thinking about the design of a flying car.” Sam Bousfield, Samson Sky Founder and CEO, was an architect before setting out on the journey of flying cars. There are actually other flying vehicles out there in the market, such as the Jetson One, from the Swedish company Jetson, but if all goes as planned, the Switchblade would be the first flying vehicle in the American market. With this institutional approval, the only challenge left to achieve are the flying tests, and once they complete them successfully, they will be able to start with the model’s commercialization. ![]() Volkswagen’s hover car concept is the brainstorm of an apparently as-yet-unnamed girl (we figure she hasn’t. Rear-mounted thrusters would propel the car forward. Real-life implantation would require electromagnetic mineral strips embedded in the roads below it, creating the hovering effect. All Showroom hovercraft sales are handled on a first-come-first-served basis. The idea is based on electromagnetic suspension. Go Hyundai! And before that, Bell Helicopters had a very similar-looking VTOL multi-rotor craft called the Nexus.The company, that specializes in domestic flying vehicles, said at the end of July that the model had passed the FAA inspection. Our Trade-In Showroom offers recreational, commercial and rescue hovercraft for sale that have been used in our business for demonstrations or promotions, or have been traded in by customers toward the purchase of a new hovercraft. Hyundai says it’ll have an air cargo version of that by 2026, an intracity Urban Air Mobility unit by 2028 and regional air mobility operating between cities by the 2030s. ![]() The year before that it was Hyundai that had a magnificent multi-rotor eVTOL thing on its show stand, along with plans for how it would use them to ferry customers across the San Francisco Bay. This 1965 Volkswagen Type 2 is a US-market Microbus Deluxe model that has been converted to a 21-window, sunroof version after it was acquired by the current owner in 2015. Last year at CES Toyota announced a nearly-$400 million investment in eVTOL maker Joby Aviation, a company that appears to be not only still in business but on its way to making something that flies by 2023, according to the Joby website. And at CES flying cars are now almost a requirement.įlying car in this case means eVTOL, or electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing craft, basically a more efficient helicopter. Just like jet packs, moving sidewalks, and robot servants that laugh at our jokes, flying cars offer limitless possibility, a huge leap over the mundanity of everyday life, and a science fiction-like view that the future has finally arrived.
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