Terrafugia has developed a prototype flying car called the TF-X that could enter mass production. The TF-X borrows construction techniques from hybrid cars in that it runs on both electricity and gasoline. It can carry four people, fly up to 800 kilometers, and fit in a normal garage. On the road it uses electricity, but a gasoline engine powers flight. An autopilot system finds suitable landing spots when fuel runs low, though the pilot makes the final safety decision.

1. Made by Irina Ionescu
8 th grade

2. Flying machines

3. The idea of ​a personal flying machines
caught the imagination of many over time.
And the ability to avoid congestion on the
road is now a step closer to reality because
a company says it has managed to devise
a concept to launch in mass production.

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The company Terrafugia says it has managed to overcome
technological barriers and develop a prototype flying car good
enough, that it be brought into mass production.
The construction technique was borrowed from hybrid cars, which
run on both electricity, and gasoline, and piloting will be done
automatically, as in airplanes.
Initially, the project was called Terrafugia Transition and represents
an aircraft that could be driven on the road.
The problem was that it had to take off and land at an airport.

6.  Then Terrafugia TF-X appeared, a hybrid
electric car that can fly within a radius of
800 kilometers. TF-X can carry four people
and fit in a normal garage.
 On the road it uses electricity to move, but
in the air it will be driven with a gasoline
engine.
 Landing is via autopilot, which will look for a
suitable place, when the fuel is running out.
The human factor is the one who decides
ultimately if the maneuver is a safe one or
not.