This Porsche is a Test Mule For a Flying Car

Love hearing about odd, wacky stuff like this. More please sir! :)

I'm glad to hear you finally bought a trash can.

tossing a canopy on a trike dose not make it a car

Imagine getting pulled over, and explaining that yes, you do have aircraft fuel in your car,
because it also flies.

I do love your channel. :-D You are great.

This quote legally is a flying motorcycle. According to the legal laws has to get around. So Harley trike Volkswagen kit cycle kit. Polaris slingshot.

the porsche is cooler than the gyrocopter

How is it fueled? Having aicraft engines would mean you can only top up at airports, right?

What type of driving (flying?) license would be needed here?

flying car before GTA6

Get an FSO Polonez!

This is neat!

But why. These never go anywhere because hybrid vehicles are almost always the worst of two worlds full of compromises that aren't worth the convenience. Anyone rich enough to buy this could just buy a bush plane anyway.

lets go an try to buy a brand new cessna 182 for 300k dollars or euro,

not happnin lol, this thing is going to change civ air travel for ever.

What can go wrong will go wrong and that thing just has too many mechanisms

It was nice having you here. Thanks again for showing up (good thing I am not socially awkward ey) ;) Very nice to see the end result of your hard work!

Would have been more interesting if it was a test car for a flying mule, just saying.... :P

Where ev escape?

For a test vehicle, you have to have a car that's old enough that emissions don't apply to it. Therefore you're basically stuck with 1970s or older vehicles, and a front-motor Porsche may be one of the most decent commonly available vehicles to use for that, and it's not very expensive] either.

Wow! Here's hoping that this goes into production!

You were minutes from my house??? The next time you're around i have a shitbox you could for sure review if you want!

I wonder what happened to the grand marquis from your first video

Flying cars are still a fundamentally idiotic idea. 🤷 Doomed company is doomed.

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Excellent episode, as usual.

Daamn! no way, you where in my home town? 😲

Probably picked that Porsche because of the rear mounted gearbox

Why not use a cvt gearbox. Then the engine can rev at a constant speed.

So glad to see the PAL-V still progressing. We used the same Rotax 912IS when developing the Terrafugia Transition, and we had similar thinking about road loads...a pothole could possibly destroy it. The first prototype had (long) belt-driven wheels from the Rotax. But that's why we made a whole tri-motor EV powertrain with small battery, so the rotax could run at a constant speed or slowly change to charge the system with a generator bolted between it and the prop. Two motors drove the rear drive wheels. I will forever be upset China killed it just as we were about to merge the powertrains. I really need to post a lot of interesting prototype testing videos....

the "Compass" is called an HSI Horizontal situation indicator

pal-v 1 looks way better

It's a car and a plane, and it sucks at both.

wow, a fancy new tool for millionaires to get themselves killed with

Dude, can't believe you were like a 5 minute drive away from me. Hope you had fun!

Dude youve been killing it with awesome quality content!!

Awesome video, as always!
Did I hear correctly? Windows don't open or vent, and no AC? Where will it be sold, Siberia?!
Also, there are approx. 8.2 Billion people on earth as of July 2024, but I get your point about how there will always be someone to buy this thing.

Great video.

Man, I wish I was eccentric enough to be able to buy that. But now I'm wishing I could take autogyro lessons.

Flying cars will never happen unless we go full autonomous. People cant drive much less fly.

my god...the complexity of it.

Why do people say it's expensive?
300k euro is the cost of 2 mid-specd Porsche 911s (or 3 cheapest ones)

the wipers stock is from a w210 fun fact as my dad has this car the mercedess benz w210

Holy shit i wasnt crazy i did see you drive a porsche in my home town that is so cool

Umm... There are over 8.1 billion people on the planet, not 7. 😃

A CVT gearbox would probably be optimal with this kind-of engine.

Never ask an engineer why he makes things like this :D
I wouldn't be surprised if all the additional engineering that is done to get this thing to work results in more profitable/useful gadgets.

Google results tell me that (someone?) in Dubai have ordered about a 100 of them ...
If that's real then they have incentive to make it work :D
Heck, I bet there's high end car companies that probably won't sell more than a few cars every year in this prices bracket.

Homer Simpson approves.

So that's basically an autogyro, as the one invented by the spaniard engineer Juan de la Cierva back in 1920...