A Dutch company said this weekend that it had conducted its first
successful test of their “flying car” prototype that they hope to make
available for consumers by sometime in 2014.
The Personal Air and Land Vehicle — PAL-V, for short — is not a new
concept: its European creators have been working on the vehicle for
years now, and even suffered a thumping by reporters in 2009 when they showed off a mini-copter design that looked nothing like the device featured in their artists’ renditions.
That early demonstration, however, appears to have been merely a
proof-of-technology display to showcase their helicopter’s new
gyro-sensing capabilities. Finally demonstrated again last weekend, it
now seems that PAL-V Europe‘s
design and engineering concepts have come together nicely, with the
near end result looking remarkably like their initial drawings and
flying like a champ. READ MORE
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