Flying Car will Remain a Toy of Specialists (Video)

The “Flying Roadster”—AeroMobil 3.0—will be unveiled in Vienna during the Pioneers Festival on October 29. The new unique prototype is going to be physically displayed for the first time to a public audience, and combines the qualities of supercars and light sports aircraft.

An earlier prototype of the Flying Roadster by Slovakian company AeroMobil reportedly took its first test flight in October last year. The latest version will be tested a day before its premiere, on 28 October.

Company co-founder Juraj Vaculik said that AeroMobil had sped up the prototyping process after having seen “enthusiastic reactions of the global engineering and design community”.

Weighing 450 kg, with carbon-fibre wings that fold behind the cabin and a flight top speed of 124mph, the two-seater promises to be more of a flying sports car than a flying family car.

“We want to make personal transportation exciting, more efficient and sustainable. With ever more cars on the roads and ever more crowded airports, travelling is no longer what it used to be,” said AeroMobil’s CTO Stefan Klein, who has been working on developing a flying car for two decades.

Agencies/Canadajournal