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EARTHDATE: November 25, 2007

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REAL LIFE NEWS: COULD THIS BE THE FLYING CAR I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR?

by Hazed

I have been asking for years: where's my flying car? Now a company called Terrafugia have come up with something that's pretty close. It's not a flying car, so much as an airplane that can be driven on the roads - it has fold-up wings that tuck neatly up against the side of the body when it's on the ground. To make sure the wings don't accidentally fold up when the plane is in the air, which would be a bit of a disaster, the folding mechanism remains locked unless the vehicle is safely on terra firma, and the engine is switched off.

The company is aiming to have a prototype plane, called Transition, by 2008. For more details, and a neat little animation that shows how the folding wings work, go to their website at http://www.terrafugia.com.


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