PALV – Personal Air And Land Vehicle
The PALV (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) is a concept for a flying car, which utilizes autogyro flying technology. In fact, the PALV is a cross-breed between a car, a motorcycle and a gyrocopter, and is designed to eliminate limitations in either flying or driving mode. The vehicle is under development by the Dutch entrepreneur John Bakker in close cooperation with the Dutch company Spark Design Engineering and other partners. Take a look at pictures of this cool concept air car:
The design of the PALV is based on the three-wheeled road-going production vehicle Carver One from the Dutch company Carver Europe. The Carver One has a fully enclosed cabin with two seats placed behind one another. The rear wheels are incorporated into one unit together with the engine and gearbox. Read the rest at Dark Roasted Blend
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At last! a vehicle that challenges the gas guzzling American V8 hot rod. If you can convert the speed and danger hungry, dare to die, ballsy American male to chasing around the country side in one of these, and power it with bio-diesel too, you will have contributed greatly to solving the oil crises in the world.
Put skis on it and we could land it on ski-doo trails and small lakes here in Canada for about 50% of the year, and with floats we could get to fishing sites in the summer like never before!
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It would cost thousands of dollars to get a license for it. There is no such thing as a floor of 4,000 feet for commercial airspace. (at least not in the U.S.) As for replacing a V8 hot rod, I don’t foresee that happening cause people just can’t hop into an aircraft and fly, it takes hours of experience and lots of practice before the FAA deems you safe enough to operate an aircraft by yourself. There is much to flying that the average person doesn’t realize or know about. This would be terrible for the General Aviation Community.
It blurs boundaries between land and air transport so there would have to be a new type certificate issued for this hybrid vehicle, 10 years of certification I would estimate. After buying and training only millionaires would be able to afford this and they would soon be dead millionaires, without extensive training and safety features such as the SR-22 parachute system that let aircraft float back to earth when the pilot becomes disoriented. Personally I think this is a pipe dream without unprecedented airspace and civil infrastructure reforms. Spend the money on education and health care instead, not hobbies for the rich and bored.
wow i cant beleive u r all fooled by these pics. its photoshopped!
Its a gyro and still needs a runway for takeoffs and recovery. Since you can keep it in your garage and jdrive it to a local airfield, you’ll save on hangering costs.
There are alot more college students getting licensed these days. I would be surprised to see this on a cliche market. My question is how do they keep the weight down while conforming to vehicle safety regs? Also, what would the affordability be? My guess between $40,000 to $50,000.
Fake: No kidding, you think?
it will cost around $140 000us
and you can not bring it to us only in europe
i already ordered one and of course the pictures above are not real because that looks like the prototype on a computer, but that was the idea of how its gonna look
wait and see the real picture in 2011