“Klein Vision Unveils Production Prototype of AirCar”

Klein Vision, the Slo­va­kia-based devel­op­er of the Air­Car, the world’s first cer­ti­fied fly­ing car, recent­ly unveiled its pro­duc­tion pro­to­type at the ‘2025 Liv­ing Leg­ends of Avi­a­tion’ Gala Din­ner locat­ed in Bev­er­ly Hills, USA, reports a press release. 

The pro­duc­tion pro­to­type, designed for com­mer­cial scal­a­bil­i­ty, was devel­oped from years of rig­or­ous test­ing and tech­ni­cal refine­ment. It will become the world’s first mass-pro­duced fly­ing car.

Inven­tor and design­er, Ste­fan Klein, unveiled the pro­to­type to a crowd of indus­try lead­ers at the Gala where Klein was hon­oured with the ‘Spe­cial Recog­ni­tion Award for Engi­neer­ing Excel­lence.’ 

The release explains, “The award cel­e­brates his con­tri­bu­tion to avi­a­tion inno­va­tion and his ground­break­ing achieve­ments in the emerg­ing field of per­son­al air mobil­i­ty. The pro­duc­tion pro­to­type was brought to life in a pow­er­ful short doc­u­men­tary that traced his 35-year jour­ney across five gen­er­a­tions of fly­ing car inno­va­tion — a sto­ry of dreams tak­ing flight.”

It con­tin­ues, “The Liv­ing Leg­ends of Avi­a­tion is an exclu­sive group com­posed of indus­try lead­ers, avi­a­tion pio­neers, record-break­ers, astro­nauts, entre­pre­neurs and inno­va­tors who have made extra­or­di­nary con­tri­bu­tions to avi­a­tion and aero­space.” 

The organ­i­sa­tion hon­ours indi­vid­u­als whose achieve­ments have sig­nif­i­cant­ly advanced flight, explo­ration and per­son­al air mobil­i­ty. This year’s Gala was host­ed by John Tra­vol­ta and Mor­gan Free­man as Mas­ters of Cer­e­monies.

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The Air­Car, which already holds a Cer­tifi­cate of Air­wor­thi­ness, has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed over 170 flight hours and more than 500 take­offs and land­ings. This rev­o­lu­tion­ary vehi­cle is capa­ble of auto­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tion from car to air­craft in less than two min­utes, blend­ing advanced aero­dy­nam­ics, com­pos­ite struc­tures and a new 280-horse­pow­er engine.

Last year, James May, host of TV pro­gram Grand Tour, vis­it­ed Klein Vision and wit­nessed the Air­Car in action at an inter­na­tion­al air­port in Slo­va­kia. He incred­u­lous­ly said, “The Air­Car has land­ed. Very rarely am I lost for words, but I am lost for words!”

Klein remarked, “Receiv­ing this recog­ni­tion from the Liv­ing Leg­ends of Avi­a­tion is a tremen­dous hon­our and a hum­bling mile­stone. The Air­Car ful­fils a life­long dream to bring the free­dom of flight into the hands of every­day peo­ple. With the launch of our pro­duc­tion pro­to­type, we are one step clos­er to trans­form­ing how the world moves, merg­ing the road and the sky into a new dimen­sion of per­son­al mobil­i­ty.”

Anton Zajaz, co-Founder of Air­Car, com­ment­ed, “With glob­al air mobil­i­ty pro­ject­ed to reach USD162 bil­lion by 2034 and grow­ing at over 50 per­cent CAGR, we believe the pro­duc­tion pro­to­type we are unveil­ing this year, posi­tions Klein Vision at the fore­front of this trans­for­ma­tion.” Adding, “We’re not just wit­ness­ing the future of trans­porta­tion, we’re engi­neer­ing it.”

Todd Dou­glas Miller, Emmy Award-win­ning direc­tor of the doc­u­men­tary Apol­lo 11, who attend­ed the Gala, said, “From the cock­pit of anoth­er air­craft, I watched the Air­Car in flight. Ste­fan Klein and Klein Vision have turned the impos­si­ble into real­i­ty, merg­ing dreams and sci­ence fic­tion into some­thing breath­tak­ing­ly real.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.klein-vision.com/

(Images: Klein Vision)

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