Flying Cars

Today we get our first look at the production-ready Flyer from Kitty Hawk, a 10-rotor, single seater sport and leisure multicopter that gives pilots around 20 minutes of flying saucer fun at altitudes up to 10 feet. Check out photos and videos of the Flyer in action!

Not to be pinned down by its continuing troubles here on the ground, Uber is pushing ahead with its flying taxi ambitions at its Elevate conference in LA this week. Among the news to trickle out of the event is a new deal with NASA, along with some flashy new concepts.

​​The flying taxi scene is now a bustling place, but some are moving faster than others. Workhorse first unveiled its Surefly flying car at the Paris Air Show in June last year, and has now sent it into the air with a person inside for the first time.

For more than a decade, Terrafugia has been testing the VTOL aircraft waters with a variety of flying taxi designs. And this old dog has new tricks in it yet, with a new concept dubbed the TF-2 that features a detachable pod for on-ground transit to and from the launchpad.​

​Like Terrafugia and Pal-V, AeroMobil has developed a flying car/roadable aircraft that requires a runway in order to take off and land. This Wednesday, however, the company announced its plans for an electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) model.

The quest to become the world's first commercially available flying car​ grew hotter this week when the first production-ready flying car​ was shown at the Geneva Motor Show. The 90-only, limited-edition PAL-V​ Pioneer will cost $600,000 and the Liberty Sport edition comes in at $400,000​.​ ​

Flying taxis still seem very much like something pulled right out of science fiction, but when transport heavyweights like Boeing, Airbus and Uber start pumping millions of dollars into their development, it might be time to take all of this a bit more seriously.

​Ehang has been a little coy about its taxi drone since bringing a grounded prototype to CES in 2016. Today we've gotten our best look yet at the Ehang 184, with footage for the first time showing it carrying out test flights with people onboard.

Jetpack Aviation continues to beaver away at the future of personal flight, with its VTOL flying car design and a number of jetpack projects up and flying. We spoke to CEO David Mayman about his new, 150mph JB-11 jetpack, FAA regulations and the state of the developing VTOL air taxi industry.

Lately Bell Helicopter has been letting its imagination run wild just a little. The company has now dropped into CES with flying taxi cabin design that it says demonstrates its vision for on-demand aircraft that carry people over urban centers.

​The flight controllers inside Intel's drones are capable of some incredible spectacles, but can they carry passengers across town in an 18-rotor aircraft? That's the end game of the company's partnership with Volocopter, and at CES today it gave glimpse of what such a feat might look like. ​

After covering major international auto shows throughout 2017, we've seen a lot of concept cars. Our favorites of 2017 include past icons reinvented as vehicles of the future, electrifying ultra-premiums, hard-to-define segment-benders and utterly insane hypercars.