Makers Of Real-Life Jetpacks To Create Real-Life Flying Cars

Jetpacks, hover boards, and flying cars are the trinity of sci-fi content that signifies futuristic societies. One company has already made one of these things possible and is setting its sights on another. That’s right, Jetpack Aviation (JPA) is thinking about creating a flying car after creating an honest to goodness working jetpack.

JPA is currently working on a VTOL that will feature multiple rotors for lift, which will basically make it look like a mix between a dragonfly helicopter and a quad-copter drone. Their goal is to create a viable flying vehicle that is made possible through cheap materials, powerful batteries, and advanced drone technology, New Atlas reports.

Right now, the VTOL is still in its concept stage, but David Mayman, JPA’s CEO already has some grand ideas as to what it will be. For starters, it is intended to seat only one person and is capable of three-dimensional flight. It will have 12 props, six arms, and parts. That last part makes it a viable personal vehicle that can actually fit in a garage.

“The way we're designing ours, there are actually six arms that come out from the top of the chassis – two at the front, two in the middle and two at the rear,” Mayman says about what they are planning with the VTOL. “The middle one can fold in. The design direction I've given is that it's gotta fit inside a single car garage. It'll be low enough and thin enough to do that, because the side arms and motor pods fold in against the chassis.”

Of course, JPA is not the only company working on a flying car. Several other firms, both startups and established brands are also entering the race to be the first to provide the public with real-life flying cars, Futurism reports. Some of those involved in co-founding companies like Skype and Google are already investing millions into their respective flying car projects.