Flying Car Built on Haas Machines

Powered by bio-fuel and built on Haas CNC machine tools, the Skycar – designed by Dorset, UK based Parajet - has just returned home after a 4000-mile flight over Europe to Timbuktu in Africa.

The Parajet Skycar is a high-performance road legal vehicle, which, by deploying a canopy and diverting power to a rear-mounted Paramotor propeller, becomes a fast, safe and versatile aircraft able to land on or off road. The two-seater Skycar was developed by 29-year-old self-taught engineer Mr. Gilo Cardozo in his workshop in Mere, Wiltshire. His firm, Parajet (www.parajet.co.uk), manufactures and sells Paramotors to customers around the world. The two-seater Skycar base vehicle  – a high-performance off-road buggy with a 1000cc motorcycle engine - was also built using Haas machines, at Rage Motorsport (www.ragemotorsport.co.uk), based in Dunstable, Buckinghamshire, UK.

“One of the engineering innovations that makes the SkyCar special,” says Jim Edmondson, Parajet sales and marketing manager, “is that the wheels and the prop’ can be driven separately from the same engine.  Other designs that have been similar have used a secondary engine to drive the prop’, but due to the combined weight of two engines the vehicles are either too heavy or lack power.”