{"id":219549,"date":"2025-08-07T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/israeli-made-flying-cars-may-be-floating-into-our-future"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:10:36","slug":"israeli-made-flying-cars-may-be-floating-into-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/israeli-made-flying-cars-may-be-floating-into-our-future","title":{"rendered":"Israeli-made flying cars may be floating into our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-made-flying-cars-may-be-floating-into-our-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 60 years, the dream of flying cars that many Baby Boomers grew up on while watching TV\u2019s George Jetson jet around the skyways has remained unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>But the dream is still alive. A dozen startups around the world are developing VTOLs (\u201cvertical takeoff and landing\u201d) \u2013 the technical term for flying cars.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most intriguing of those companies is right here in Israel. Yavneh-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanaero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Aeronautics<\/a> is developing CityHawk to be an eventual \u201cUber of the air.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 60 years, the dream of flying cars that many Baby Boomers grew up on while watching TV\u2019s George Jetson jet around the skyways has remained unfulfilled. But the dream is still alive. A dozen startups around the world are developing VTOLs (\u201cvertical takeoff and landing\u201d) \u2013 the technical term for flying cars. One [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219549","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}