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The Terrafugia Transition, The Street Legal Flying Car Of The Future

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The Terrafugia 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.

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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, 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) wide and 18 ft 9 in (5.72 m) long are designed to fit within a standard household garage.

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Equipment includes a Dynon Skyview glass panel avionics system, an airframe parachute, and an optional autopilot.The Transition can reach heights of 9,000 feet, allowing the two passengers to literally soar above traffic.

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The Terrafugia Transition is powered by a Rotax 100hp engine and cruise speed is expected to be in the 100 mph range. your travel distance on a flunk? expect to fly up to 400 miles. When in airplane mode, you have control sticks to maneuver the aircraft.

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.

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