Goodbye, "street traffic"... the flying car is flying in the skies of Slovakia

Klein Vision said it has obtained an airworthiness certificate from the Slovak Transport Authority for its flying car.

It stated that this certificate is in line with the standards of the European Aviation Safety Agency.

The flying car, which includes fully retractable wings and has a 160-horsepower BMW engine with a fixed propeller and ballistic canopy, was certified after 70 hours of test flights, 200 take-off and landing experiments, in addition to training on sharp turns.

“Cars were a symbol of freedom,” says Anton Zajak, partner and founder of Klein Vision. “You know for sure that you lost that freedom because you are often stuck in traffic. Our goal is to restore a feeling of freedom to those who have a pilot’s license and can drive.”

According to the team that developed the flying car, it does not need any skills or experience in flying, as it performs the procedures for ascending and descending automatically without the intervention of the driver.

Professor Stefan Klein, the creator of the flying car, says it will open the way for many developments in the field.

Price not announced

An initial price was not determined for the car, as the first piece of it, which will be offered within a year for sale, was not sold, after modifications were made to the engine, to make it 60 horsepower, capable of flying 1,000 kilometers at a speed of 180 miles per hour.

The car recently managed to fly between two cities, and its developers hope it will be available for commercial use in the next 12 months.

According to media reports, the development process of this flying car took 6 years, with a consumption of 18 liters of gasoline per hour of flight.

This flying car only needs a 300-meter runway to take off.

Although flying cars have become a really common sight in car shows and technology fairs, the real difficulty is no longer in the availability of this quality, but rather in obtaining a flying license to be able to drive and fly this type of car.

In July of last year, the BMW brand announced the success of a city flight experience for the first flying car produced by the German company.

The Motor One website, which specializes in car news, transmitted a promotional video of the BMW flying car test, which was tested on a flight from Nitra to Bratislava, Slovakia.

Last October, the Chinese electric car maker Xpeng revealed details of a flying car that it says can be driven on the roads, along with a number of products.

The company stated that it plans to launch the flying car in the name of HTC Aero in 2024, noting that the car is not yet commercially available and subject to a change in its final design.