a street-legal airplane

[moose]

Terrafugia has completed flight testing of the Transition POC (Proof of Concept). Introducing the Transition®. Simply land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home.
Fly a distance of 725 kilometers at speeds of 115 km/hour;
requires a special license to drive and fly.
The time required for the transition from plane to car takes less than 30 seconds.
Vehicle speed 185 km/hour, range is 724 km on highways
Vehicle is fueled with gasoline, and the price of the car is expected to be around $200,000.
The first shipment will be in 2011
The company is based just outside of Boston in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.

Terrafugia - Transition®, the Roadable Light Sport Aircraft : Home

 

[spacer]

Fortunately (I hope) this thing will remain light-sport, which really opens up the market for fresh pilots.

 

[layoutshooter]

Cool idea!! The Jetson's come to life!! I sure hope it can hover though, can you imagine if these things catch on, stop lights in the sky!!! LOL!!!

 

[x06col]

They are ALL street legal in Alaska. Airplanes have the right of way everywhere there. Kinda interesting driving down the road a see one taxi by.

 

[layoutshooter]

I was not lucky enough to see that the one and only time that I got to spend some time up there. I did love it up there, I could be "FORCED" to live there. Who knows, might end up there someday.

 

[dletheridge]

Nothing really new. They have been around since the late 40's. They just haven't caught on.

Sort of like the windecker eagle - although it paved the way for other composite airplanes.

http://www.aerocar.com/