How about driving your car in the skies? Sounding strange but Jens Martin Skibsted and his firm has designed a Terrafugia flying car design, with a folding-wing for easy parking, which can actually make sky-roads for you. Skibsted talked about his futuristic project in an extensive interview over at BoingBoing. Here is what he revealed.
The entire concept started in search of urban mobility. They wanted some planning for the city with style, so the thought stopped at flying cars. The result was Terrafugia’s next-generation Transition Roadable Aircraft, unveiled on Monday. However, a scale model is now under construction and reservations are acknowledged for $10,000 with delivery planned for late next year.
The Federal Aviation Administration have also granted an addition 110 pounds within the Light Sport Aircraft category so that the Transition can incorporate typical safety qualities found in cars. Terrafugia announced that the sale price would be in the $200,000 range.
And the team is working really hard to make things work. I’d imagine that designing a flying car is a unique challenging project. Skibsted revealed that the project had three stakeholders- designers, mechanical engineers, and then the aerodynamics engineers. Usually, you just have designers working with engineers on a certain concept. Besides, KIBISI likes working on concepts for unusual objects and designs, and they are pretty sure that they will make this design fly.
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