{"id":1615,"date":"2009-06-08T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T09:10:21","slug":"terrafugia-flying-car-makes-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/video\/terrafugia-flying-car-makes-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrafugia &#8220;Flying Car&#8221; Makes First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Terrafugia &#8220;Flying Car&#8221; Makes First Flight<\/h4>\n<p class=\"note\">\nMarch 2009\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>This morning it&#8217;s official \u2014 the future is now. The Terrafugia Transition, the first plausible &#8220;flying car&#8221; (or more precisely, a &#8220;roadable aircraft&#8221;), took its first official flight earlier this month.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1638\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/video\/terrafugia-flying-car-makes-first-flight\/attachment\/terrafugia-flying-car\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/terrafugia-flying-car.jpg?fit=804%2C490\" data-orig-size=\"804,490\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"terrafugia-flying-car\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/terrafugia-flying-car.jpg?fit=590%2C359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/terrafugia-flying-car.jpg?resize=590%2C324\" alt=\"terrafugia-flying-car\" title=\"terrafugia-flying-car\" width=\"590\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1638\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re expecting more details out of a Terrafugia press conference at 9:30 AM this morning, but for the moment we&#8217;re able to announce that the Transition, their first &#8220;roadable aircraft&#8221; (we&#8217;re going to go ahead and call it a Jetsons-like &#8220;flying car&#8221;), took its official first flight on March 5th, 2009 at Plattsburgh International Airport. It&#8217;s the first time we&#8217;ve seen an actually plausible &#8220;roadable aircraft&#8221; work in real life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e1_WR-V1FhM?hd=1&wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHXnLCIgNug?hd=1&wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the Transition? Well, it&#8217;s an unleaded-fueled front-wheel drive vehicle on the ground, It gets a fuel economy of around 30 MPG and has a top speed of 65 MPH. The design features an automotive-style entry and exit and it&#8217;ll retail at a street price of $194,000 when it eventually goes on sale. But, you can reserve one now for just $10,000 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafugia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terrafugia&#8217;s website<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"editNote\">\n&lt;&lt;Editors notE&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nCheck out a previous post on this car\/airplane <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/worlds-first-flying-car-on-the-roads\/\" title=\"worlds-first-flying-car-on-the-roads\">here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrafugia &#8220;Flying Car&#8221; Makes First Flight March 2009 This morning it&#8217;s official \u2014 the future is now. The Terrafugia Transition, the first plausible &#8220;flying car&#8221; (or more precisely, a &#8220;roadable aircraft&#8221;), took its first official flight earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,41,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-science","category-technology","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph7OQR-q3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}