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Is this the 1st flying car?
    2017-02-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    It has been 50 years since the Jetsons first predicted we’d be flying the family about in airborne cars.

    And experts say we are tantalizingly close to the dream becoming reality.

    Pal-V, a two-seat hybrid* car and gyrocopter*, was recently voted the most likely to become a reality and today the firm behind it finally opened preorders for the vehicle.

    “After years of hard work, beating the technical and qualification challenges, our team succeeded in creating an innovative flying car that complies with existing safety standards, determined by regulatory bodies around the world,” Robert Dingemanse, CEO of Pal-V, announced. “While other flying car manufacturers’ concepts require modified regulations and in many cases not yet existing technologies, Pal-V deliberately chose to engineer, design and build a flying car with proven technologies and fully compliant with existing regulations,” the firm said.

    “This leads to a first product delivery date that is realistic and imminent*. Later in 2017 we will start building a preproduction series followed by the manufacturing of the first Pal-V Liberty’s for our early pioneer clients.”

    Deliveries of road and air certificated models are scheduled by the end of 2018.

    While driving, the lowered suspension and tilting cockpit adds to the sports car feel, the firm says.

    The two-seater vehicle converts from a three-wheeled motorcycle to a gyrocopter in 10 minutes.

    “On the ground the vehicle drives like a sports car,” said Pal-V.

    “Within minutes its rotor* is unfolded and its tail is extended: then it is ready to take off thanks to the advanced gyrocopter technology. With these successful test results it is proven that it is not only possible to build a flying car but also that it can be done within existing international rules for both flying and driving.”

    (SD-Agencies)

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