Terrafugia - Flying Car

Woburn, MA 3rd June 2009: Terrafugia, Inc. has successfully designed the flight test program for the transition movable Aircraft Proof of Concept. Once dubbed The Flying Car completed the transition of its historic first flight on 5 March 2009 with 27 additional flights in the weeks to complete. The successful completion of the flight test with a proof of concept includes the first phase of a four-step process to make the transition into production. The work isrunning at level 2, the beta prototype. The first delivery is expected in 2011. The proof of concept vehicle is the first and only transition to be built so far. It has now achieved its objectives by demonstrating driving, flying, and automated transformation between the two in an integrated aircraft. The flights carried out a plan established specifically for the change: characteristics such as handling, performance and take-off and landing, stable and barn were evaluated. B-roll is recordedProvision of representative flights. The flight-test program demonstrates the safety of the vehicle into the air, while the identification of changes that are built into the next transition model, the beta will be integrated prototype. Test pilot, Colonel (retired) Phil Meteen had a positive balance in the POC: I want to keep having this proof of concept vehicle, but it makes sense now for the beta prototype. Categorized as Light Sport Aircraft, requires a transitionSport pilot certificate to fly. It is designed a two-seat aircraft to take-offs and landings at local airports and driving on any road. Transforming from plane to car, the pilot is less than 30 seconds. The transition will cruise up to 450 miles at over 115 kph, will travel at highway speeds on the road, and fits into a standard household garage. The vehicle has front-wheel drive on the street and a propeller to fly. Both modes differ powered by unleaded petrol for cars. By pilotsconvenient ground transportation option reduces the transition costs, inconvenience and weather sensitivity of personal aviation. It also increases security by integrating automotive crash structures and allows pilots fly the bad weather. Refundable cell Reservations are currently being accepted. Terrafugia (FOO-ter-ra-gee-ah), headquartered in Woburn, MA, consists of a team of award-winning includes engineers who have been the state of personal airplanes since 2006, advancing. Founded byfive drivers who graduates from MIT and a world-class network of advisors and private investors, shall be Terrafugias mission of the innovative expansion of personal mobility. "Terrafugia" is Latin for "escape from the country."



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