Flying Cars...Finally!

They're finally here, flying cars. We've all seen a television show or movie with flying cars and thought, "What if they really existed?" or "I can't wait until those are real." and now they are. Actually they have been for a while but in Oshkosh, Wisconsin Terrafugia (the developers of the flying-car) showed a new design of an older model (Transition "roadable aircraft"). You would be able to drive the new and improved Transition proof-of-concept flying car on the road and up to 105 miles per hour in the air. Although Transition flying-car isn't as small as a regular car it has a driver and passenger seat, driver and passenger airbags, a GPS system and wings that fold when being operated on the road. Although these long awaited vehicles aren't officially on the market yet, the first Transition aircrafts will start being delivered in late 2011. Even though there was no cost stated in this article I would say don't get your hopes up for a new flying car anytime soon.

This article is related to science because it studies the physics of a vehicle that we have been awaiting for years. Although flying cars haven't been the center of human attention it has been an interest of many people. The new designs made to the Transition have finally been able to qualify a vehicle to be both aircraft certifited and land certifed. The Transition has also broken barriers for a normal type of travel in a new way. Today it's a flying-car and tomorrow it may be something even more spectacular. The new Transition could help scientists and designers to think of more barriers to break or to help break barriers that have remained closed.

We should be interested in this because one day, this all our world will be. In the future the things we saw on television and wished were real will be our future generation's everyday life. We might not even have to wait until future generations to experience this milestone. If some of us are lucky we may be able to experience it before our time here is up. Airtravel without the need of 150 people in one aircraft is just the beginning.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/photogalleries/100728-flying-car-terrafugia-transition-science-pictures/#flying-car-designed-terrafugia-transition-tarmac_24037_600x450.jpg