AirCar navigates course to viable flying cars
Flying cars could be moving closer to production following the successful 35-minute flight of AirCar Prototype 1, a Slovakian dual-mode car-aircraft that currently runs on a BMW engine.
AirCar, the brainchild of Professor Stefan Klein, co-founder of Klein Vision, this week (June 28, 2021) marked a key stage in its development when it undertook the flight from Nitra Airport to Bratislava Airport where it made its 142nd successful landing.
After landing, the fixed propeller aircraft transformed at the click of a button into a sports car in under three minutes before being driven by Prof Klein and company co-founder Anton Zajac into Bratislava. According to Klein Vision, the entire journey was cut by a factor of two.
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The transition is made possible by over 20 programmable servo motors and Zajac believes further optimisation will quicken the transformation from aircraft to car to one minute and two seconds. At 5.2m, AirCar is the same length of a Mercedes S-Class, but 2cm narrower.
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