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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually it’s a flying car – and it could be coming to a road near you very soon.
Skies full of cars are a staple science fiction vision that, up until now, hadn’t quite become reality. But Slovakian company Klein Vision is hoping to change things with its car-to-plane prototype, dubbed the AirCar. Its futuristic, rocket-like design unfolds a pair of wings once the driver presses a button to convert to flight mode.
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The design has just received an airworthiness certificate from the Slovak Transport Authority, after completing more than 70 hours of test flights. This included a 35-minute flight from Nitra to Bratislava, where the car landed, converted back to drive mode, and continued to the Slovakian capital by road.
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Klein Vision now hopes to begin mass manufacturing the model, with founder Stefan Klein claiming it could ‘change mid-distance travel forever’. Drivers – or should that be pilots – can reach speeds up to 300km an hour in the petrol-powered car, and complete journeys of up to 1,000 km, but will still have to take off and land at an airstrip.
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