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Japan announces successful test of manned ‘flying car’, paving way for 2023 liftoff – 7NEWS.com.au
It’s the stuff of countless sci-fi movies. But a successful test in Japan shows flying cars could soon be a reality.
The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
Japans SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of flying car projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.
In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted one to two metres off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes.
Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who head…
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