Monday, October 20, 2008

It's a Car...It's a Plane...

For Sunday's Globe column, I wrote about an incredible young company called Terrafugia, located in Woburn.

Since visiting the company, I've been showing everyone I meet the video of the company's "roadable aircraft"/flying car. The reactions are interesting -- from "wow!" to "I'm gonna learn to fly so I can get one" to "who needs that?" (The company has a finely-honed list of reasons why pilots might prefer an aircraft that they can drive, and park in their garage at home.)

The video is below. I'm eager to see the plane fly later this year. I think the headline and subhead that ran with the column on Sunday ("Fighting to take off...small customer base and dearth of investors...") made it sound like the company is in some sort of trouble. I don't think that's the case, but there are obviously big challenges in getting this vehicle to market successfully.

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1 Comments:

Blogger cristian said...

My opinion on the matter is that in present times we should have cars that fly with the help of gravitational modifier device. The current technology should allow that for cars.
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