{"id":245390,"date":"2026-10-14T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/faa-approves-test-flights-for-real-life-300000-electric-flying-car"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:05:07","slug":"faa-approves-test-flights-for-real-life-300000-electric-flying-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/faa-approves-test-flights-for-real-life-300000-electric-flying-car","title":{"rendered":"FAA Approves Test Flights for Real-Life $300,000 Electric Flying Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faa-approves-test-flights-for-real-life-300000-electric-flying-car.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might think that one time travel adventure might be enough for a lifetime, but in the final scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmoviedeals.nbcuniversal.com\/products\/back-to-the-future?variant=42673857331376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Back to the Future<\/em><\/a>, Marty (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/michael-j-fox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael J. Fox<\/a>) hops into the passenger seat of Doc Brown\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/christopher-lloyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Lloyd<\/a>) DeLorean and sets out for parts, and times, unknown. We didn\u2019t know what that adventure would be yet (to find out, we had to wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmoviedeals.nbcuniversal.com\/products\/back-to-the-future-ii?variant=42251164319920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Back to the Future II<\/em><\/a>) but we knew it was going to be wild because Doc Brown flipped down his suitability retro-future style sunglasses, flipped a switch, and the DeLorean took to the air with a suitably cool quip. \u201cRoads? Where we\u2019re going, we don\u2019t need roads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When we came back for the sequel Marty, Doc Brown, and Jennifer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/elisabeth-shue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elisabeth Shue<\/a>) arrived in the distant future of 2015, where kids ride hoverboards, adults drive flying cars, and they\u2019re still making <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmoviedeals.nbcuniversal.com\/products\/jaws?variant=42251191943344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Jaws<\/em><\/a> movies. Sadly, 2015 came and went and there aren\u2019t any flying cars in sight. At least not any that look and feel like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/aircar-flying-car-flight-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the flying cars of our imagination<\/a>. However, all of that is primed to change, thanks to the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/alef.aero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alef Aeronautics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think that one time travel adventure might be enough for a lifetime, but in the final scene of Back to the Future, Marty (Michael J. Fox) hops into the passenger seat of Doc Brown\u2019s (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean and sets out for parts, and times, unknown. We didn\u2019t know what that adventure would be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1515,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-travel","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390","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=245390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}