Watch Video: Rock Star Takes First Passenger Flight in KleinVision Flying Car

French musi­cian, com­pos­er, per­former and record pro­duc­er, Jean-Michel Jarre, has become the first pas­sen­ger to expe­ri­ence the mar­vel of the Klein­Vi­sion fly­ing car, reports a press release.

This epic jour­ney occurred two weeks ago at the Pies­tany Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, Slo­va­kia, where Jarre flew at up to 2,500 ft on two sep­a­rate occa­sions. At the con­trols was vision­ary, co-Founder and cre­ator of the fly­ing car, Ste­fan Klein.

75 year-old Jarre described as “the God­fa­ther of elec­tron­ic music” enthused after his flights, “It is like being in a Jules Verne book, but for real. One sec­ond you speak to the dri­ver, and next, you are up there in the air, an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence.” 

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Klein added, ”From dreams to real­i­ty, we have tak­en flight togeth­er with Jean-Michel, open­ing a new era of trans­porta­tion with a touch of mag­ic.”

The Slo­vak Trans­porta­tion Author­i­ty cer­ti­fied the Air­Car for flight in Jan­u­ary 2022 fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of 70 hours of rig­or­ous flight test­ing com­pat­i­ble with Euro­pean Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) stan­dards. This includ­ed over 200 take­offs and land­ings. Today, the vehi­cle has demon­strat­ed more than 500 such events. The fly­ing car has retractable wings, fold­ing tail sur­faces and a para­chute deploy­ment sys­tem. In car mode, the tail folds in, mak­ing it small­er than the fly­ing ver­sion.

The rights to pro­duce the vehi­cle in Chi­na were recent­ly sold by Klein­Vi­son to Hebei Jianx­in Fly­ing Car Tech­nol­o­gy. This licens­ing agree­ment gives the Chi­nese com­pa­ny exclu­sive rights to man­u­fac­ture and dis­trib­ute the fly­ing cars using KleinVision’s tech­nol­o­gy.

“Air­Car Signs Ground­break­ing Man­u­fac­tur­ing Deal”

The first flight of a pro­to­type Air­Car was con­duct­ed at Nitra Air­port in 2019. The vehi­cle was then intro­duced to the gen­er­al pub­lic the fol­low­ing month in Shang­hai, Chi­na.

Mor­gan Stan­ley,  a glob­al leader in finan­cial ser­vices, believes the fly­ing car mar­ket could be worth, annu­al­ly, USD1.3 tril­lion by 2040.

(images: Klein­Vi­sion)

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