I told you about Moller’s SkyCar, the concept car that could fly in sky. But, flying cars that will undergo production was a dream until a start-up company called Terrafugia announced its plans to create a flying car called Transition that is street legal, flyable as a light sport craft, has practical value, and is marketable to a wide audience. The car currently only exists on paper but is slated to be available in prototype form by 2008. The unique car is estimated to carry a price tag of $148,000 and will also need a sport pilot license.
via GearLive
Terrafugia Announces Transition Flying Car


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Concept of flying car
Dear sir,
This is jegan from India. I would like to share my innovative idea with you. I have gone through your website. I strongly believe that flying cars will be a common vehicle in near future. Just i would like to explain the concept of the flying car.
For example We imagine that we don’t have any career to travel on the surface of water. We try to invent a material or may me a boat. This material should float at the surface of water and it should not sink. This is the basic criterion to invent a floating material or boat. So we cut a wooden piece which should be light weight and dry. Now the wooden piece floats on the surface of water. As you know, here the wooden peice floats due to density variation between water and wooden piece. Here density of water plays an important role to help the wooden peice to float on surface. A person sits on the wooden peice and tries to travel. At the time he finds lots of problems like the piece may turn down etc. So that we design a boat, which will not turn, down and sink even though if there is some waves. Now we can invent a boat because we understood the concept behind that and succeeded in developing a boat so that we can travel on the surface of water.
Now we want to travel in the air approximately at 12 feet height by using a material. For that we need a medium up to 12 feet to help the material to suspend in the air. We select the magnetic repulsive force as a medium. Here the magnetic repulsive force between three magnetic materials (two heavy weight magnetic bars have been fixed in the ground to create consistent magnetic medium till the height of approximately 12 feet’s height and one light weight magnetic material have been designed to float at the surface of magnetic medium created by other two).. The beauty of this medium is that one object always trying to push other( Usually a magnetic material in the air is always pushed away because the two magnetic bars have been fixed in ground with significant parallel gap ). We have to utilize this pushing away property to move the magnetic object in the air from one end of magnetic medium to other end by giving the repulsive force continuously. Here also the magnetic object may turn down (As happened on the surface of water) and can stick to the ground magnetic bars. So we have to design the magnetic object (in air) and the medium (here we create the medium so that we can alter it) in such a way to suspend the object in the air. We can succeed in this and can travel at 12 feet height or whatever altitude we want.
The basic difference between two concepts
1) In first, we could see the medium (Water). But in second, medium is invisible and so the magnetic object in the air looks like flying.
2) In first, the medium is not pushing away the object, which floats so we need energy to move the object. But in second, the suspending object is constantly pushed away and we can utilize this property to move the object without energy wherever we want by producing the medium continuously.
Now I hope that you can understand this concept of flying car. I strongly believe this concept will revolutionize the future mode of transport.
Thanking you yours sincerely,
Jegan Sundararajan
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Car innovations nowadays are somehow has been even getting better as people were in great fascination ( the parts bin ).