Terrafugia Transition
What exactly is the Terrafugia Transition?
The Terrafugia Transition is an automobile-plane hybrid that has four wheels, two wings, and a cockpit-like any other normal plane. What you won’t find are huge turbine engines attached to those wings, but the Transition is powered by a four-cylinder hybrid-electric engine and a rear-mounted propellor that are able to propel the car-plane to up to 100 miles per hour and at a maximum altitude of 9,000 feet. It’s flying range is limited to 400 miles, which is good enough for short stints in the air.
According to Terrafugia, the Transition is able to shift from car mode to airplane mode in less than a minute. However, you still need a proper runway to get a good lift-off, so don’t expect to escape that crazy Friday-night traffic at a moment’s notice. As you might expect, you would need to acquire a pilot’s license to fly it as well.
On the road, it can drive up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h)[6] with normal traffic.
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- Terrafugia Transition “flying car” makes first public flight
- It’s still not a flying car, but it certainly does fly.
- The Terrafugia Transition street-legal aircraft made its first public flight earlier this week at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, The Times reports.
- The vehicle, which can fold its wings to be driven on public roads at speeds up to 65 mph and parked in a typical household garage, flew above the gathered crowd of aircraft enthusiasts for about 10 minutes.
- The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go into production after being given a special weight exemption by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
- The Transition was designed as a “light sport” aircraft, the smallest kind of private airplane under FAA classification, with a maximum weight of 1,320lb. But the manufacturers found it impossible to fit the safety features – airbags, crumple zones and roll cage, for instance – that are required for road vehicles into that weight.
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