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The flying car is finally here but the inventors would rather that you not call it that and instead call it a “readable aircraft.” It is just like something out of Blade Runner or George Jetson. This flying car has been fixed in everyone’s imaginations for some years and finally it is no longer just a figment of our imaginations.
The future is definitely here. The curvaceous and sleek white vehicle which is going to be on sale next year is able to cruise smoothly on the road and then lift off into the sky. No more sitting in traffic.
This car, which is called the Transition, is going to go on sale next year. It has four wheels, a Formula One type of suspension, and ten foot wide wings that folds up and disappear when the car is no longer touching the road.
This is not the first flying car that was ever evened and most of them (pardon the pun) never took off. Many inventors have spent their entire lives perfecting these types of cars. In the 1950s an eccentric Navy pilot named Molt Taylor invented a vehicle called the Aerocar. He just could not find any buyers for it and so he went of business. Nobody was interested in it as a viable form of transportation.
The Transition car is a very practical vehicle that has been invented by some very serious engineers. It is basically a single engine rear propeller aircraft that also just happens to be a car. The design that was developed by Marc Stiller, Carl Dietrich and Andrew Heafitz meets Federal Aviation, Adminstration standards for flying and also the National Highway Transportaiton Sfety Administration and Environmental Protection Agency regulations for driving.
However you can forget the fantasy that you will be able to somehow take off from a road and fly over to available parking spaces or round the corners of buildings like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. You will only be able to drive it to a runway and take off from there. Also you will need to get a pilot’s license to go along; with your driver’s license before you can fly the thing.
This will also not be a mass manufactured car. There will only be about several hundred of these cars sold a year for now. The first flight test for the car has not happened yet. It is scheduled for late November.
Another problem is that, according to the New York Times, this venture is also not very well funded as of yet. It only as about a million in private funding a couple of presales for the car that were made in good faith. However because it is such an extravagant project the flying car could once again disappear from our radar - especially now that the market has crashed.

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