There is also a lot of interest from England. A good score in Van den Bosch his opinion, but most of the interest is coming from countries like Australia, the United States and India, where long distances have to be covered. Image: PAL-V International interestĪ PAL-V costs 299 thousand euros 55 have been sold in the Netherlands so far. Within three minutes from the situation on the left to the situation on the right. The PPL will allow you to fly all over Europe.
“That means you have to do about 45 flight hours and learn a bit of theory,” Van den Bosch explains.
A HOVER CAR LICENSE
They are all required to get their Private Pilot License (PPL). You end up with the safest plane possible that way.”Īlthough flying has never been so simple and safe as this, customers are not satisfied with just a driver’s license. If the engine fails, it becomes a parachute. You get propulsion through the propeller. “There is a large rotor on the roof that is powered by the wind. This is because the PAL-V is a gyropter, an aircraft with a motorless rotor. You press the button, perform a number of actions and your vehicle is transformed from a sports car into a flying machine in just three minutes. It is not difficult: at the exit on the highway you turn onto a runway – a distance of somewhere between ninety and two hundred meters is enough. “I always try to look really tough during such a test flight, but for me it is still a dream come true every time.” From car to flying machine in three minutes
A HOVER CAR DRIVER
There isn’t a car brand that is not working on the development of a flying car.” He often sees potential customers come in skeptical, but after a presentation and a test flight – during which Van den Bosch willingly takes on the role of both driver and pilot – they almost always leave feeling inspired. The routes to cities are becoming increasingly crowded you can already see that more and more traffic is taking to the air. “I am convinced that we are moving towards a world where new forms of mobility will play a major role. He often runs into skeptics this is part of the job when you are trying to market an innovative product. Van den Bosch his job is to spread the word about the flying car. The speck on the horizon is getting closer and closer, it’s all starting to become very real now.”
A HOVER CAR VERIFICATION
“We still have to do 125 verification flights and then we will be awarded our certificate,” he says. The certificate from EASA is the only thing that is still lacking. Sometime late next year or early 2023, Van den Bosch expects to hand over the keys to the first customers of their own flying cars. The company is in its glory days: the machines are standing at the ready in a workshop in Brabant, all the lines have been set out and the flight school in Breda is ready to receive the first pilots-to-be. PAL-V has now proven that it possesses stamina. It would have to be really unusual for the AirCar to catch up with the PAL-V.
The manufacture of a commercial aircraft is governed by the guidelines of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and takes at least ten years, Van den Bosch explains. Developing a flying car takes a very long time. Nevertheless, this competition is not posing a serious threat for the time being. “A pretty impressive achievement,” Marco van den Bosch, CCO at PAL-V, says of AirCar’s first flight. But in July, the AirCar in Slovakia had the scoop with its flight from Nitra to Bratislava. The Dutch PAL-V was supposed to be the world’s first flying car.
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