Terrafugia, a real flying vehicle: hybrid car plane

[fredericponcet]

No doubt a very bad plane (not only in terms of performance, see below) and very bad car.

Real interest to move quickly in very large regions and without a highway, but much too expensive for most of the inhabitants of these regions: in other words a niche market.

Regarding its aircraft qualities: an aircraft is always difficult to take off and especially to land when there is a lot of wind. It is all the more difficult (and dangerous) as its speed is low and it is light.

In a thing like that, in high winds, there is something to be afraid of. Furthermore, its fineness must be very poor, which poses not only a problem of performance but especially of safety in the event of an engine failure.

The idea that this mode of transport is the future is an old fantasy in the United States (see the interior design of the Cessna 152 and 172, imitating the style of the cars of the time) but even in this country, it doesn’t never took. Air regulations can be relaxed, but natural aeronautical constraints cannot be relaxed.

In a country where you travel 800 km in 3 hours by train, let's not talk about it: it's grotesque (which would be interesting, however, would be a mode of transport for cars such as "Eurotunnel shuttles" which is more economical than Not easy because the dimensions of the cars are very variable and above all disproportionate to the number of passengers actually transported ... inventors of genius, to your boards!)

[Christophe]

No doubt a very bad plane (not only in terms of performance, see below) and very bad car.

Right, that was exactly the general conclusion of the first 2 pages of this subject (which dates from 2009)!

[moinsdewatt]

The Aeromobil 3.0, the flying car made its first flight

Oct 31, 2014 Industry & Technologies

The Aeromobil 3.0, the flying car made in Slovakia, made its first world appearance at the Pionneers festival in Vienna, Austria, on October 29, 2014. This functional prototype, as shown in the video below, was designed in 10 months only by his parents, Stefan Klein and Juraj Vaculik, respectively Chief technology officer and Chief executive officer of Aeromobil.



The 3.0 version of this flying car would be very close to the end product that the two Slovak engineers intend to market. The Aeromobil 3.0 has notably successfully passed the flight tests but has yet to complete a whole battery of tests before being certified.

The hybrid vehicle has an entire avionics system, an autopilot and also a ... parachute (in case of breakdowns!). Also in terms of materials, this product uses the composites that the Aeromobil in its industrial version should use.

http://www.industrie-techno.com/aeromob ... -vol.34102

[moinsdewatt]

and it really flies:



and in video: http://www.lepoint.fr/auto-addict/innov ... 47_652.php

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