{"id":11865,"date":"2015-12-06T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T21:36:47","slug":"sci-tech-terrafugia-to-test-scale-prototype-of-roadable-vtol-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11865","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Terrafugia to test scale prototype of roadable VTOL vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned here <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2153\" target=\"_blank\">back in May<\/a>\u00a0that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terrafugia<\/a> was developing a second generation flying car called the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/tfx-vision\" target=\"_d\">TF-X\u2122<\/a>. Unlike the company&#8217;s current\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/aircraft\/transitionR\" target=\"_d\">Transition\u00ae<\/a> roadable airplane, the TF-X\u00a0will take-off and land vertically while also being able to be driven\u00a0on roads.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the FAA granted Terrafugia permission to test a 1\/10 scale unmanned prototype of the TF-X:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/news\/faa-grants-terrafugia-uas-exemption-tf-x-flight-testing\" target=\"_d\">FAA Grants Terrafugia sUAS Exemption for TF-X\u2122 Flight Testing\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Terrafugia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video showing how the TF-X would operate:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHJTZ7k0BXU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned here back in May\u00a0that Terrafugia was developing a second generation flying car called the \u00a0TF-X\u2122. Unlike the company&#8217;s current\u00a0Transition\u00ae roadable airplane, the TF-X\u00a0will take-off and land vertically while also being able to be driven\u00a0on roads. Recently the FAA granted Terrafugia permission to test a 1\/10 scale unmanned prototype of the TF-X:\u00a0FAA Grants Terrafugia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Terrafugia to test scale prototype of roadable VTOL vehicle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-35n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2153,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2153","url_meta":{"origin":11865,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Terrafugia announces VTVL roadable flying car project","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The company Terrafugia has been developing the Transition\u00ae roadable airplane for several years and has flown a prototype. 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