On January 24, AirCar, a subsidiary of flying car company Klein Vision, officially received an airworthiness certificate issued by the Slovak Transport Authority, which means that the car can legally "go to heaven", making a good start for commercial and mass production.
Xiao Lei learned that not a random flying car can obtain an airworthiness certificate, and only a flying car that has undergone more than 70 hours of testing can obtain an airworthiness certificate, which shows that the stability and reliability of AirCar have been recognized by the relevant departments.
The AirCar, both flying and on the road, is powered by a BMW 1.6T four-cylinder turbo engine that can deliver up to 140 horsepower and completed flight tests between the two airports last July in a total of 35 minutes and a top speed of 170 kilometers per hour.
Probably considering the weight and fuel economy, the AirCar does not use a larger displacement engine, so the carrying capacity of the car is not very good at present, and it can only ride two people at most. According to the official introduction, this car can fly 960 kilometers at an altitude of about 2.5 kilometers from the ground, after all, there is no need to consider traffic, roads and other issues in the sky, this endurance is enough.
In the end, the flying car is still a car in its bones, and it is necessary to take into account the practicality on the road. The size of the AirCar is not large, in addition to a little long and a little tall, basically can be used as a normal car to drive. Of course, the folded wings and tail wings are relatively high, and in the face of low and high places, their passability will be affected.
Many netizens can easily associate traffic congestion with flying cars, and they can activate the flight mode when encountering traffic jams. It is worth mentioning that AirCar does not have the ability to lift off in situ, and if you want to avoid traffic jams, you can only plan the flight route before you set off, otherwise you will think about taking off in the middle of the traffic jam, and the use of flying cars is no different from the underground tunnel invested by Musk.
There are many companies that are engaged in flying cars, but very few can get airworthiness certificates. In January last year, the flying car developed by Geely got the airworthiness certificate, but it still needs a lot of preparation to make this new form of automobile enter the public vision, just like the folding screen mobile phone, practicality, production costs, and related supporting facilities must be close to consumers to have the opportunity to make this new way of travel become mainstream.
Klein Vision also said that its goal is to increase the range of the civilian version of the AirCar to 1,000 kilometers. From the perspective of form and feasibility, the company's AirCar is very close to the form of mass production, and it is believed that the civilian version will not take too much time to list. Once flying cars are popularized, will they become traffic jams in the sky?