What Is A Flying Car?
Flying cars are personal vehicles that can fly — a merging of cars and planes into “roadable” aircraft.The dream of making cars that can fly has been around practically since the first automobiles rolled off the assembly line. The first automobile/plane hybrid was patented in 1917, shortly after the Wright Brothers’ first flight. In spite of this early interest, only 10 additional patents for personal air vehicles (PAVs) have been filed since then. Through the decades flying cars have mainly been experimental modes of transportation and the stuff of fiction — think of the Jetsons, Harry Potter, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the novels of Philip K. Dick. Recently however, the combination of new technologies and increasing traffic problems have helped renew interest in this type of transportation vehicle. Companies such as Boeing, Honda, Toyota and Ford are all currently participating in research and development projects for various flying car models, focusing not just on experimentatio
