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Neil Laughton has quite a reputation as a thrill seeker. He has scaled the highest mountains on each continent and trekked up to the North Pole. But even he would concede that his latest...
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- News Source: The Electric News Paper | 10 months agoToday, the former special forces officer will begin a 42-day journey through Europe and Africa in the Parajet Skycar, which is billed as the world's first road-legal biofuelled flying car. The Skycar is basically a souped-up dune buggy fitted with a...
- News Source: Xtra News | 10 months agoA group of British adventurers set off from London to Timbuktu in a flying car Wednesday -- but the project immediately hit turbulence, as they have not received permission to take to the skies here. The Skycar team, who left London Wednesday morning,...
- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 10 months agoYou jump into the driver's seat, open up the throttle, the fan spins up, the wind launches, and you just accelerate down the runway and within 50 to 100 yards you're flying, you just take off," he said. It is billed as the world's first legal, bio-...
- News Source: Asian Age | 10 months agoBritish expedition team set off on Wednesday morning on an adventure of a lifetime: a trip from London to Timbuktu on a car that can fly too. Inventor of the Parajet Skycar Giles Cardozo along with a huge expedition led by team leader Neil Laughton...
- News Source: CNN | 10 months agoFrom the noisy and lovable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the time-traveling DeLorean in "Back to the Future," flying cars have been a fixture of movies and science fiction that never quite cut it in the real world -- until now. A flying car devised by...
- News Source: Times Online | 10 months agoMr Laughton plans to drive across most of Europe in what is essentially an adapted dune buggy, running on biofuel. As he approaches the natural barriers that lie in his path – the straits of Gibraltar, the Atlas Mountains, the trackless wastes of...
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 10 months agoOn the ground the Skycar runs on a biofuel-powered engine and can accelerate from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 4.5 seconds. But with a powerful fan on the rear its take-off speed is 60kph, and once in the air it can fly at speeds of up to...
- News Source: The Courier-Mail | 10 months agoOn the ground the Skycar runs on a biofuel-powered engine, and can accelerate from zero to 100km/h in 4.5 seconds. But with a powerful fan on the rear its take-off speed is 60km/h, and once in the air it can fly at speeds of up to around 110km/h,...
- News Source: The Observer | 10 months agoAt 10am today the vehicle that can "drive like a car" and "fly like a plane" will begin a journey from the salubrious surroundings of Knightsbridge, London, to Timbuktu...When it reaches 45mph, enough lift should be generated to get the car airborne,...
- News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 10 months agoParajet Skycar Expedition leader Neil Laughton, left, and chief pilot Gilo Cardozo pose with their flying car Tuesday in London. (Shaun CurryAFP/Getty Images) In an expedition worthy of a Jules Verne novel, a British adventurer will embark this week...
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