Tarrafugia's two-seat Transition, a hybrid car-airplane has received an FAA airworthiness certificate but not NHTSA roadworthiness approval. Massachusetts-based Terrafugia announced earlier this week ...
The flying car is well ensconced in the pantheon of automotive fantasy. After all, who hasn't cruised happily down the highway, only to see a sea of brake lights ahead? And who hasn't dreamt of ...
Now we can all look forward to a near future where sidewalks are replaced with conveyor belts and robot maids bring us nicely chilled cocktails as we relax after work and all that sci-fi like ...
People used to say that cars in the '50s and '60s had fins, giant wing-like protuberances that designers grafted on to capitalize on the fledgling concepts of aerodynamics. Your fist impression of the ...
Six years after the initial announcement that Terrafugia, Inc. would develop a "roadable airplane," the Transition has completed the first phase of flight testing. The flight testing, carried out at ...
It’s a flying car! At least more than the last one was. Terrafugia, creators of the Transition street-legal airplane, have unveiled their vision for the next generation of personal aircraft, the TF-X.
Sometimes a hybrid is more than a hybrid. The Terrafugia uses a hybrid powertain as it drives down the road. It's also a hybrid car and airplane. Even in the sky, it can make use of hybrid power.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a car! Well, two out of three are correct. While it doesn’t exactly have superpowers, the Terrafugia Transition certainly has a futuristic design. Most importantly, ...
Given the fact that roads are getting more and more crowded, car manufacturers thought that it would be nice if they could also conquer the sky. That is exactly what Terrafugia Inc. thought in 2010 ...
Terrafugia Inc. announced this week that it reached a milestone in its road to bringing the Transition roadable aircraft to market. The FAA granted Terrafugia a FAA Special Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) ...
When you take off for work in the morning, Terrafugia wants you to mean it literally. The startup hopes to sell a hybrid personal automobile/aircraft, called the Transition, that can take you from ...