The company Terrafugia has been developing the Transition® roadable airplane for several years and has flown a prototype. It should finally go to market within a year or so. Today the company announced plans for a second generation personal flying vehicle called the TF-X™, which will take-off and land vertically and still be drivable on roads.
Of course, this mission cannot be carried out with a commercial bus but only with NASA’s $20B SBS (Senate Bus System). NASA has many studies to confirm this.
The Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) posted the video below showing highlights of activities at their Mojave test site on Saturday May, 4th. These activities included:
the launch of a high power sugar fueled rocket and the first successful static firing of a 6″ rocket motor for the Sugar Shot to Space project (the previous two motor tests resulted in CATOs.