The flying car Terrafugia Transition made its debut on Apr. 5 at the New York International Auto Show. Here is a look at other aerodynamic automobiles to have traveled road and sky
The Terrafugia Transition, a flying car, unfolds its wings at the 2012 New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center in New York,
This March 23, 2012 photo provided by Terrafugia Inc. shows the company's prototype flying car, dubbed the Transition, during its first flight. The vehicle has two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up so it can be driven like a car, and flew at 1,400 feet for eight minutes during the test. Commercial jets fly at 35,000 feet
Pilot instructor Mathias Klug, front right, and student Mirja Gutzer, red overall, are about to make a landing with their Skyline Event GTS, near Giessen, north of Frankfurt, Germany, on this photo taken Monday, Nov.17, 1997. It took Klug 2 1/2 years to develop and build the peculiar hybrid car-plane that can fly at a speed of 120km/h (72 mls/h) and can go at least 50 km/h (30mls/h) on the ground after removing the wings. The Skyline Event GTS can be ordered at 90,000 marks (dlrs 52,000). Klug said the idea behind was to find a solution that permitted air travelling and further mobility after arriving at the landing ground, like driving to the next beer garden
Inventor Paul Moller sits in a prototype of his new Skycar, a personal "vertical takeoff and landing" vehicle which will start its first flights tests over the next several months. The Skycar, made by Moller International, now costs an estimated $1 million to produce -- but company officials hope eventually to bring the price tag down to around $50,000 dollars
British adventurer Neil Laughton, front, poses with his Parajet Skycar with his team in London, during the launch of the expedition in his Parajet Skycar from London to Timbuktu, Tuesday. Jan. 13, 2009. The Parajet Skycar, the world first road legal. bio-fueled flying car will start from England, Wednesday, to Timbuktu in Mali through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania
"Aerocar", constructed by Edward Sweeney from USA, able to fly and to drive on a street, is shown at the motor show in Essen, Nov. 24, 1997.
The retrofitted DeLorean DMC-12 at the "Back To The Future" 25th anniversary Trilogy Blu-Ray release celebration at Gustavino's on October 25, 2010 in New York City
An Israeli worker of the Urban Aeronautics company services an unmanned flying car at the company's headquarters in the central Israeli town of Yavne, Israel, Thursday, April 28, 2011. The Israeli company Urban Aeronautics is developing an unmanned flying car that can be used in combat operations or for rescue missions, as it can fly close to the ground and above complicated terrain.
A test pilot lands the Personal Air and Land Vehicle PAL-V following a test flight in 2009. Is it a flying car or a driving aircraft? Either way, the Personal Air and Land Vehicle, or PAL-V for short, has just proved it can handle the skies as well as the highway, both at up to 180 kilometres (112 miles) per hour
The car of Ana Catarina Durao loses its wing feathers and heads towards the river Tagus during a Flugtag, Wings' Day, sponsored by a soft drinks company, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, in Lisbon, Portugal. Thousands flocked to the river bank to watch the 50 contestants and their flying machines participating in the second edition of the Lisbon Flugtag
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