{"id":2153,"date":"2013-05-07T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2013-05-07T02:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:00:49","slug":"sci-tech-terrafugia-announces-vtvl-roadable-flying-car-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Terrafugia announces VTVL roadable flying car project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Terrafugia<\/a> has been developing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/aircraft\/transitionR\" target=\"_d\">Transition\u00ae<\/a> roadable airplane for several years and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/aircraft\/transitionR\" target=\"_blank\">flown a prototype<\/a>. It should finally go to market within a year or so.\u00a0 Today the company announced plans for a second generation personal flying vehicle called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/tfx-vision\" target=\"_d\">the TF-X\u2122<\/a>, which will take-off and land vertically and still be drivable on roads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/news\/terrafugia-shares-tf-x%E2%84%A2-vision\" target=\"_d\">Terrafugia Shares TF-X\u2122 Vision &#8211; Terrafugia &#8211; May.6.13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2013\/05\/06\/terrafugia-unveils-new-tf-x-project-talks-future-of-flying-cars\/?single_page=true\" target=\"_d\">Terrafugia Unveils New TF-X Project, Talks Future of Flying Cars | Xconomy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the design:<\/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\/bp2TWNpTA7s?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>The company Terrafugia has been developing the Transition\u00ae roadable airplane for several years and has flown a prototype. It should finally go to market within a year or so.\u00a0 Today the company announced plans for a second generation personal flying vehicle called the TF-X\u2122, which will take-off and land vertically and still be drivable on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Terrafugia announces VTVL roadable flying car project<\/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-2153","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-yJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11865,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11865","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Terrafugia to test scale prototype of roadable VTOL vehicle","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned here back in May\u00a0that Terrafugia was developing a second generation flying car called the \u00a0TF-X\u2122. 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