{"id":16236,"date":"2014-10-03T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16236"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T09:43:49","slug":"the-flying-car-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16236","title":{"rendered":"The flying car has landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organisers of Vienna\u2019s Pioneers Festival, an annual conference for future technology and digital entrepreneurship, announced on Thursday that they would unveil the prototype of \u201cthe world\u2019s most advanced flying car\u201d on 29 October.<\/p>\n

An earlier prototype of the Flying Roadster by Slovakian company AeroMobil reportedly took its first test flight in October last year. The latest version will be tested a day before its premiere, on 28 October.<\/p>\n

Company co-founder Juraj Vaculik said that AeroMobil had sped up the prototyping process after having seen \u201centhusiastic reactions of the global engineering and design community\u201d.<\/p>\n

Weighing 450 kg, with carbon-fibre wings that fold behind the cabin and a flight top speed of 124mph, the two-seater promises to be more of a flying sports car than a flying family car.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make personal transportation exciting, more efficient and sustainable. With ever more cars on the roads and ever more crowded airports, travelling is no longer what it used to be,\u201d said AeroMobil\u2019s CTO Stefan Klein, who has been working on developing a flying car for two decades.<\/p>\n

In June, Terrafugia announced that it was two years away from finishing its first \u201croadable aircraft\u201d , but now it looks like the US company will be beaten to the prize.<\/p>\n

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Organisers of Vienna\u2019s Pioneers Festival, an annual conference for future technology and digital entrepreneurship, announced on Thursday that they would unveil the prototype of \u201cthe world\u2019s most advanced flying car\u201d on 29 October. An earlier prototype of the Flying Roadster by Slovakian company AeroMobil reportedly took its first test flight in October last year. The … Continue reading “The flying car has landed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,86],"tags":[10156,3678,10155,9591],"class_list":["post-16236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-technology","tag-aeromobil","tag-austria","tag-flying-car","tag-vienna"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16244,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236\/revisions\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}