{"id":633,"date":"2010-07-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/terrafugias-carairplane-hybrid-soars-on-latest-faa-ruling-"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:00:00","slug":"terrafugias-carairplane-hybrid-soars-on-latest-faa-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/07\/terrafugias-carairplane-hybrid-soars-on-latest-faa-ruling.html","title":{"rendered":"Terrafugia\u2019s car\/airplane hybrid soars on latest FAA ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/o:p>SolidWorks customer Terrafugia<\/a> is
\none step closer to bringing aircraft to a garage on your street. Maybe even
\nyour own driveway.  <\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

\"Transition-top\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

News comes from the UK publication The Register<\/em> <\/a>that the FAA recently designated
\nTerrafugia\u2019s Transition<\/a> combination
\naircraft\/road vehicle as a \u201clight sport aircraft.\u201d The light sport aircraft
\ndesignation means Transition buyers can fly one with a sport pilot\u2019s license
\nrather than a full pilot\u2019s license.  <\/span>That
\nhelps Woburn, Mass.-based Terrafugia push the Transition idea to a larger
\nmarket, improving its chances of becoming a widely used form of alternative
\ntransportation. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Transition is a cleverly designed little aircraft that, upon landing, can
\nfold its wings and drive on roads like a sub compact car. While the term
\n\u201cflying car\u201d is tempting, Terrafugia prefers \u201croadable aircraft\u201d to avoid
\ncomparisons with the gimmicky
\nflying cars of generations past.<\/a> Terrafugia is betting that Transition will
\nfind a market with travelers who want their own plane for short business and\/or
\npersonal travel, but don\u2019t want to pay to store it at an airport. With
\nTransition, you fly to the airport nearest your destination; drive off the
\nrunway to your destination; drive back to the airport; fly yourself to your
\nlocal airport and drive home. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Terrafugia used SolidWorks to help tame the engineering issues inherent
\nin combining air and ground travel in a single vehicle. Transition had to be
\nlight enough to get off the ground, but needed features like air bags and a
\nprotective cage to keep passengers safe from ground collisions. The ground
\nsafety features put Transition about 110 pounds over the weight limit,
\naccording to The Register<\/em>, but it was
\napparently close enough. Terrafugia spoke
\nto us in March<\/a> about balancing the demands of designing a viable aircraft
\nand ground vehicle in one package. This should clear the way for commercial
\nproduction. Terrafugia already has orders for 70 Transitions. Good luck to the
\nTerrafugia team!<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SolidWorks customer Terrafugia is one step closer to bringing aircraft to a garage on your street. Maybe even your own driveway.     News comes from the UK publication The Register that the FAA recently designated Terrafugia\u2019s Transition combination aircraft\/road<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[209,19],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","tag-innovation","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}