A flying car for £2,750

February 18, 2015

aero car special

While It’s not what futurists of the 1950s had in mind when they imagined flying cars we would all be driving by now, the four-seater aero car special that sold on eBay last week for £2,750 certainly looks like it could take to the skies.

flying car

The aero car special is based on a decommissioned Beechcraft B55 light aircraft and Daihatsu Hijet microvan. The result is without doubt the world’s most distinctive (grounded) flying car.

https://youtu.be/oSrTjh4bu-0

I want a flying car - what are the options?

The flying car is an engineering Holy Grail that has eluded inventors despite over half a century of work. However, ram-air wing (think modern-day parachute) and gyrocopter (as featured in the Bond film You Only Live Once) technology has made possible designs such as the SkyRunner and PAL-V.

Both the Skyrunner and PAL-V are best described as road-going light aircraft, rather than what the average person might imagine a true flying car to be, but despite decades of development, cars able to take off and land vertically (VTOL) have failed to materialise.

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