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Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by Haywhyho7(m): 10:05am On Jan 27, 2022
The Transport Authority of Slovakia has awarded a certificate of airworthiness to the flying car model AirCar. This is a huge step forward in the quest to make flying cars a reality.

The approval stamp comes after the flying car completed 70 hours of flight testing and over 200 takeoffs and landings compatible with European Aviation Safety Agency requirements, Klein Vision, the company behind the futuristic vehicle, announced in a statement.

“AirCar certification opens the door for mass production of very efficient flying cars,” enthusiastically reacted Stefan Klein, the inventor, and test pilot. “It is official and the final confirmation of our ability to change mid-distance travel forever.”

“Fifty years ago, the car was the epitome of freedom. AirCar expands those frontiers by taking us into the next dimension, where road meets sky,” added the cofounder of the venture Anton Zajac.

A pilot license is required to fly the hybrid vehicle, which can go beyond 8,000 feet (2,500 meters). Developers hope to put it on the market for commercial distribution within the next 12 months.

“Where road meets sky”

The Slovakia-made flying car, equipped with a BMW engine and with a 170 km/h cruising speed in the air, has already been making headlines for months.

Last summer, it completed a 35-minute test flight between the airports of Nitra and Bratislava. After landing in the Slovak capital, it reverted to a car driven through the city center.

Similar types of transportation are being developed elsewhere, as CNN reminds, including by companies in the US and the Netherlands. Most of them, however, have a helicopter-like vertical takeoff procedure and are mostly designed for short distances.

“I do believe we will see full electric or at least hybrid vehicles of this, or similar kind, in the near future, contributing to our environmental sustainability targets,” commented Kyriakos Kourousis, chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Airworthiness and Maintenance Specialist Group.

The company is planning a test flight between Paris and London in the near future, according to the BBC.

Read Here: https://livenews.ng/flying-car-gets-approval-to-take-to-the-skies-in-slovakia/

Re: Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by eddynaira125: 10:14am On Jan 27, 2022
Is God even aware of Nigeria Existence?
Re: Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by Authoreety: 10:22am On Jan 27, 2022
Hope there will be personal airways oo..


Cos I no Wan make dem break my roof o
Re: Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by Authoreety: 10:23am On Jan 27, 2022
Hope there will be personal airways oo..


Cos I no Wan make dem break my gbamgbam o..
Re: Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by Psalmspsalms: 10:50am On Jan 27, 2022
Look at what other countries are approving. Main while my county is still battling with the old man that would become the next president. PH is doing their illegal refining of crude oil, the west is into skull mining, the northerners are eating children's dick while the east is there killing themselves.



I go soon leave this country for una
Re: Flying Car Gets Approval To Take To The Skies In Slovakia by holaphem(m): 10:57am On Jan 27, 2022
If only the government will support the youth we have genius in Nigeria as well undecided

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