The Transition brings the dream of the flying car to life. It seats two and converts from drive mode to flight mode in under a minute with just the push of a button. Eliminating the hassle of hangar storage, ground transportation, and aviation fuel, the Transition fuels up with automotive gas and can be stored in your home garage.
source/image(PrtSc): Terrafugia Inc
The Terrafugia Transition is a light sport, roadable airplane under development by Terrafugia since 2006.The Rotax 912ULS piston engine powered, carbon-fiber vehicle is planned to have a flight range of 425 nmi (489 mi; 787 km) using either automotive premium grade unleaded gasoline or 100LL avgas and a cruising flight speed of 93 kn 172 km/h.
On the road, it can drive up to 70 miles per hour 110 km/h with normal traffic. The Transition Production Prototype’s folded dimensions of 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) high, 2.29 m wide and 5.72 m long are designed to fit within a standard household garage.
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When operated as a car, the engine power take-off near the propeller engages a variable-diameter pulley CVT automatic transmission to send power to the trailing-suspension mounted rear wheels via half-shafts powering belt drives.In flight, the engine drives a pusher propeller. The Transition has folding wings and a twin tail./wikipedia
