Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Flying car

  • (CBS/AP) - Flying cars are all the rage these days. Earlier in the week came word of a Dutch flying car, the PAL-V. Now, an American car-plane is making headlines for completing a successful test flight just days after its European competitor.
  • (CBS News)
  • Thinking of buying a flying car? You may want to go Dutch. The Netherlands company PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) said its flying car prototype has successfully completed several test flights in the past two weeks.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • This post comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney. After years of flying-car-envy from watching The Jetsons and Back to the Future Part II, drivers are months away from being able to buy their own.
  • (MSN Money)
  • A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained engineers is trying to go where no corporation has gone before: building a profitable business selling flying cars.
  • (Businessweek)
  • A flying car is being unveiled this week at the New York Auto Show, and we cant help but wonder: If the roads are jam-packed with crazy drivers now, what would it be like if they all had flying cars? The manufacturer, Terrafugia of Woborn, Mass.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • I havent been this disappointed since marketers took the goblet of nails and glass out of the Michelin Mans hand and started making him smile all the time. (I like my white, fluffy tire mascots to be poker-faced.
  • (Oregonian)
  • "This is an airplane you can keep in your garage," said Richard Gersh, vice president of Terrafugia, the flying car's Massachusetts manufacturer. "People have been trying for flying cars since not long after the Wright brothers.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • NEW YORK -- Flying cars arent just science fiction anymore. Woburn, Mass.-based Terrafugia Inc. said Monday that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • Flying cars arent just science fiction anymore. Woburn, Massachusetts-based Terrafugia Inc. said Monday that its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year.
  • (CBC)
  • Heres that flying car youve been dreaming of your whole life. From aircraft company Aircraft company Terrafugia comes the Transition car, which touts four wheels, two wings and the ability fly two people anywhere. Click here to view this gallery.
  • (YAHOO!)

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