Most Americans only know Bratislava for two equally horrifying reasons: it is the setting for the blowtorch-to-the-eyeball-scene in Hostel and it's the place where they make the Porsche Cayenne. Before anybody gets too upset, Hostel was entirely fiction… but before anybody feels too relieved, the Cayenne is definitely real.
Now there's a third reason to remember the former Gem Of The Eastern Bloc: a flying car!
The claimed specs, subject to verification and/or eventual reality, are:
- 992 pounds dry
- 100 horsepower from a Rotax 912 light-sport aircraft engine
- 124mph airspeed
- 430 mile range in the air
Speaking as someone who lives about three miles from a general-aviation airport, I would be eager as all get out to own something like this. Just drive to the airport and plot a relatively direct flight path to the nearest GA airport to your destination, then drive from there. Manhattan is a ten hour drive from my front door, but it would be about five hours by AeroMobil. The advantages are even greater if you live in a region where the highways don't necessarily run straight to one's destination, as is the case for most of the American South, or if you live in traffic-jammed parts of the country.
Potential drawbacks are… oh, let's not kid ourselves, there isn't the room to list the potential drawbacks of a hugely expensive and complex ultralight flying car. Still, watch the video and tell me you wouldn't rather have that than something similarly expensive like, oh, a Bentley Flying Spur…. That's what I thought!
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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