From Breaking Defense
Will Roper, in charge of Air
Force acquisitions, sees flying cars “using electric takeoff and landing (eVTOL)
technology could be in full-up production for the Air Force … within three
years.”
The Air Force has a name for
its eVTOL program: Agility Prime. The service is working with commercial companies
already involved in developing flying cars.
“The
Agility Prime program will
hold a ‘virtual launch event’ April 27 to allow
vendors to showcase their capabilities and interact with potential investors
from both the private sector and the military, the Air Force Life Cycle
Management Center (AFLCMC) announced earlier this week.”
"Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is
coming. You may smile, but it will come.” – Henry Ford, 1940.
The flying car conception has been around since the
beginning of aviation and automobile industries. The period immediately after
World War II was filled with ideas of taking a car from its garage, unfolding
the wings, starting up and flying off to work.
Fans of flying cars have not developed assurances of safe
flying; of mechanical abilities of the average driver; of hundreds, if not
thousands, of flying cars in the air.
Landing on my street in a few years? I hope not.
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