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The first flying car appeared. The world's first flying car integrating "flying in the sky and running on the ground" was unveiled in Miami, Florida on Tuesday night. It is a new car that has been brewing for more than a century.
This aircraft, known as the pioneer personal air landing vehicle (pal-v), is equipped with retractable overhead and rear propellers and can cruise at an altitude of up to 12500 feet (3810 meters).
It uses car gasoline and has a top speed of 200 miles per hour in the air and 100 miles per hour on the ground.
The machine made in the Netherlands is already in production, with a price of 599000 US dollars. So far, there are 70 orders, and the first shipment is expected in 2021.
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Pal-v will be exhibited at an event called 'Miami 2020 and the future'.
The flying car can seat two people, has 230 horsepower and a four cylinder engine.
The two seater car can change from a three wheeled car to a rotorcraft in 10 minutes and accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 8 seconds.
In 2017, Maxim Magazine selected pal-v as the company most likely to 'really' launch flying cars. Two years later, this prediction became a reality.
Robert & middot, chief executive of pal-v; In an earlier statement, Robert dingemanse said, "after years of efforts, our team has overcome the technical and qualification challenges and successfully manufactured a flying car that meets the existing safety standards set by regulators around the world."
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It is made of carbon fiber, titanium and aluminum, weighs 1500 pounds, takes 540 feet of runway to take off and only 100 feet to land.
The aircraft is equipped with a motorcycle like processing system, which relies on the driver to tilt the vehicle with a joystick on the ground and in the air.
Dingermans told the Associated Press: 'flying cars have appeared many times in movies and will be seen next year.'
The next cheaper version is the pal-v liberty sport, priced at $335000.
The car only needs to press a button, and the rotating blades will fold up and gather on the roof like bat wings.