{"id":370717,"date":"2020-08-29T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370717"},"modified":"2020-08-29T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:26:53","slug":"flying-car-with-a-person-on-board-gets-off-ground-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-car-with-a-person-on-board-gets-off-ground-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flying car\u2019 with a person on board gets off ground in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes \u201cthe flying car\u201d can be made into a real-life product by 2023, but he acknowledged that making it safe was critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan\u2019s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes \u201cthe flying car\u201d can be made into a real-life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}