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A street-legal airplane?

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There’s a flying car coming to the New York International Auto Show this week. The Terrafugia Transition is a two seat airplane with foldable wings, four wheels and turn signals. Over the past few years the Massachusetts company has called its creation a “roadable aircraft” and lately, a “street legal airplane.” But ahead of the Transition’s first appearance at an auto show, it’s perhaps more appropriate to simply call it what it is: a flying car

Terrafugia and its Transition have been around for several years, but until now the company has largely stuck to the aviation community. But Terrafugia Co-Founder and CEO Carl Dietrich says looking at the people who have placed orders for the $279,000 vehicle, they thought it would be worth looking outside the aviation world.
via Wired

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