Terrafugia, AeroMobil, PAL-V One, Moller International, Zee.Aero and Urban Aeronautics are among the few well-known names in this regard who are trying to make future Flying Cars real one day. Volkswagen, Toyota are the established mobile companies that have also been working on the concept of Flying Car. Besides, there are others like NASA, US military backed organisations that are working on to bring up a flying car that can serve civilian as well rescue operations needs.
1. Terrafugia:
Terrafugia, founded by MIT Grads is a Boston-based company that is expected to launch the Transition Model by 2017 after testing to check meeting standards for air and road safety underlined by Federal Aviation Regulatory body.
The company has already received about 100 pre-orders on Transition mode after announcing launch in upcoming years in December 2011. Besides the next generation model Terrafugia TF-X would also be developed with increased automation and scheduled for commercial availability after ten years post its debut in 2017 if it undergoes all tests successfully.
2. Aeromobil:
Aeromobil, a Slovakian company has come up with an upgraded prototype of flying car AeroMobil 3.0. After an initial test crash, AeroMobil 3.0 finally made a successful maiden flight in the last decade. The CEO Juraj Vaculik had suggested the company’s plans to launch the model commercially by 2017. The importance of meeting regulatory standards for a flying vehicle cannot be understated and thus it would not be surprising if there occurs further delay by a couple of years before the final launch. Besides, AeroMobil also plans to make a fully automated version of the prototype for increased safety and comfort standards.
3. PALV:
PALV is a company from Netherlands that has developed a Personal Air And Land Vehicle Prototype PAL-V One that it claims can give experience of driving a sports car on road and at the same time like a flying bird in the sky giving a dimension of freedom by taking off from one island and landing to another, flying over mountain ranges and rivers.
4. Zee.Aero:
Zee.Aero, a small company in the Silicon Valley in California is working on to flying car concept to build up a VTOL machine. A patent filed by the company states that the VTOL car is capable of getting parked in a shopping mall. The project lead Ilan Kroo, an aeronautics professor and NASA scientist. The Zee.Aero has been designed in an arrangement that is called as ‘Canard wing’ wherein the payload area lies between front and rear set of wings.
Flying Car Soon To Be Available For Sale:
The Terrafugia Transition Flying Car can be launched any time now by 2018. It was scheduled to be launched last year. The company had further planned to launch the fully automated version of Terrafugia TF-X model by the year 2025 and having an estimated starting price of £200,000.
