New Hybrid to Takeoff, Literally, in 2009

January 29, 2009

Trial runs will begin in 2009 for Terrafugia’s—a Boston-area company—flying automobile. Transition, a hybrid of an automobile and airplane, is a two-seater airplane that takes regular unleaded gasoline. The vehicle, which Terrafugia is calling a ‘roadable aircraft,’ can travel 500 miles on a single tank of gas. No need for any special accommodations for Transition, [...]