Vehicle Parajet SkyCar, able to travel long distances on land as a car, and climb into the sky as the plane departed yesterday from London to its first long trip to Africa.


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Flying a total length of six thousand miles will pass through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and to be completed in Timbuktu, Mali on 20 February this year. Travelers will stay in the buggy on the ground only where there is a road and go up into the air, only to cross sections that are difficult to overtake the example, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

The journey, the inventors started a flying vehicle Parajet SkyCar, will last 42 days. At its creation engineers, enthusiasts Zhilyu Cardoso (Giles Cardozo) took a year and a half.

In fact, the vehicle Parajet SkyCar is a small lightweight car a la buggy with big wheels.

To ensure that the car has become a «flying», were attached to the sectional rectangular parachute and powerful propeller, which is commonly used in paraplanerah. Time takeoff «flying» buggy took three minutes.





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Motor vehicle Parajet Sky Car, running on biofuel, allows him to accelerate from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour for 4,5 seconds and reach a maximum speed of 180 kilometers per hour.

Maximum speed of a flying car in the air - 110 kilometers per hour, and limiting the height of 4.5 thousand kilometers. While traveling from the Skycar Expedition Team have reported that under normal conditions buggy will fly at a distance of 600-900 meters from the ground.