If you’re like me, you’ve been asking that question ever since Michael J. Fox first took to the skies in his Delorean almost 25 years ago. “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
Well, we might be one step closer to making that dream a reality, thanks to a company called Terrafugia. Their team of MIT engineers and MBA’s has designed and built the Transition, a “street-legal plane.” And while they make every effort not to call their “roadable aircraft” a flying car, it’s a plane that transforms into a car and then back into a plane. A plane that drives and a car that flies are the same thing in my book. It’s a flying car!
Terrafugia is taking orders and deposits for the Transition now, and they expect to start fulfilling orders in 2011. At an expected price of just under $200,000, it will cost less than some premium cars that can’t even fly!
The Transition plane does require a sport pilot license to fly, which can be earned with as little as 20 hours of training.
Once you land, just press the button and your plane transforms intself into a car in about 30 seconds. Then you’re legal to drive on any surface road and it’s even small enough to fit in your garage. Incredible. Next time you’re stuck in traffic, think of all that wasted space right above the freeway and imagine the freedom of the skies from the captain’s chair of your new Terrafugia Transition.
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