Japan's 'Flying Car' Gets Off Ground, With a Person Aboard
The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
The SkyDrive SD-03 flying car is test-flown during a demonstration in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 25.
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Tokyo (AP) -- The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
Japan’s 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.