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Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight
MistrX writes "The Dutch company PAL-V completed its first series of test flights with its flying car, the PAL-V One, successfully. The PAL-V One flies like a gyrocopter, with a minimal runway length of 165 meters, and drives around like a trike on the road. Furthermore it offers 2 passengers a maximum speed of 180km/h both on land and in the air. The company aims with the PAL-V One at usage within the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, because private flying is more commonplace."
If it's a roadable aircraft, does that mean that the cop will have to accept my excuse of "I'm flying low" when he clocks me at 110mph on the freeway?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
I'd say also that a flying car needs to not have big dangerous spinning things sticking out.
Actually, there's an interesting question. How long before the first car chase where one of these guys flips on his takeoff mode....
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Hardest part wasn't getting the car to fly, but finding an actual maiden...
They will have to call it the NTSC-M One, of course!