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The idea of the flying car has been around for 80-something years, and yet, we’re no closer to finally achieving that feat as we approach the third decade of the new millennium. That doesn’t mean people haven’t tried, though. In the last 10 years, projects like the Terrafugia Flying Car have taken shape. Google founder Larry Page has also taken a stab at building a flying car with Kitty Hawk, and, more recently, the PAL-V has come to existence. Now, we can add another name to this ambitious list.
NFT is an American/Israeli startup company that wants to take all of us to the skies with the Aska, an electrically powered flying car that can also double as a road-legal, ground-bound vehicle. Classified as an eVTOL — the name stands for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing — the Aska is a car with wings or a plane with four wheels. It really depends on your perspective. Either way, it’s NFT’s first stab at introducing a flying car that can take off and land vertically with wings that can be folded back in case you want to drive it on the road like a regular car. NFT has said that it plans to do test runs of the Aska as early as the first quarter of 2020 and if everything goes according to plan — a huge “if” — look for the Aska to start hitting the skies by 2025.
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