{"id":134704,"date":"2022-01-26T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-flying-car-was-officially-cleared-to-fly"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:31:18","slug":"a-flying-car-was-officially-cleared-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-flying-car-was-officially-cleared-to-fly","title":{"rendered":"A Flying Car Was Officially Cleared to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jf3I0ORN3ac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next stop? Mass production.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we asked Zajac how he believed the AirCar will compete with the oncoming surge of eVTOL aircraft: \u201cAirCar is a completely different category of vehicle,\u201d Zajac replied. \u201cWhereas AirCar is fully taking advantage of the aerodynamic forces during flight and the lifting force is generated by fixed wings and [its] lifting body, the VTOLs are [essentially] helicopters. As a result, VTOL vehicles have low energy efficiency, shorter range, and smaller cruising speeds. I believe both will be used side by side for different purposes.\u201d The question does remain on how many people will be willing to shell out for a flying car that needs access to a runway for takeoff. With Morgan Stanley predicting the flying car sector will be worth $1.5 trillion by 2040 and KleinVision having flight certification under its wings, we may be very close to finding out. has played a central role in the twists and turns of Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>As a boy, it led him first to mathematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next stop? Mass production. With that in mind, we asked Zajac how he believed the AirCar will compete with the oncoming surge of eVTOL aircraft: \u201cAirCar is a completely different category of vehicle,\u201d Zajac replied. \u201cWhereas AirCar is fully taking advantage of the aerodynamic forces during flight and the lifting force is generated by fixed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}