Flying car completes first ever 35-minute flight
Have you ever thought that you would see anything like this?
Science fiction is now a reality as a car made a trip from the Nitra International Airport to the Bratislava International Airport on 28 June 2021.
AirCar, a dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle, is equipped with a BMW engine and uses petrol as fuel.
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According to BBC, the creator of the car, Prof Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km at a height of 2,500m, and had spent 40 hours in the air so far! Impressive!
Prof Klein ‘drove’ the car himself and confidently said the ride was ‘normal and pleasant’ as the car reached a speed of 170km/h!
The vehicle, which turns into an aircraft, took two years to build and cost $2.3-million to develop.
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