Flying cars could be taking to the skies of Kuwait by 2021.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) and the Dutch firm Personal Air Land Vehicle (PAL-V) flying cars company, where KAC will provide maintenance for the vehicles in the Middle East. Source
That’s one way of not having to deal with the crappy roads…
22 replies on “Kuwait Airways signs deal for flying cars”
I’m sorry, what? This has to be a joke?
Is this even safe? lol
Yeah, there aren’t as many people flying while on their phones
First ask them to operate the Kuwait Airways in a correct manner then venture into all this high fly.
Lol wait it’s not April…
Should’ve have spent this money on our appalling public transportation infrastructure instead.
Why jump to the assumption that this will be for citizens lol. Obviously not! This is still equivalent to an airplane, its only for those who are certified and authorized to pilot them – hence “Kuwait Airways”.
Yes, airplanes nevertheless, I guess, this will be kind of like ‘Air Taxi’.
Flying cars existed since 1940.. they are called helicopters
^^THIS
How long till some jerk with wasta gets ‘daddy’ to buy him one of these and then crashes it into the sea?
I’d be more worried about him crashing on top of my car!
that’s one small step for a Kuwait Airways one giant leap for the rest of us.
Yeah…a giant leap out of the impact zone!
Welcome to the future!
As always no one actually bothered to read the article before cracking jokes and jumping to conclusions. The MoU is for KAC to provide maintenance services for the PAL-V. That’s it.
Thank you!
Maintained by KAC, Operated by PAL-V , Obtained by WASTA DAD, Crashes into SEA or CRANKY , Investigated by MOI. Declared mentally unstable by MOH & MOJ set free back into the custody of DAD …..
God I love abbreviations 😉
That, or I would be somehow blamed for it…
LOL.. Kuwaiti local dive bombs COA re-awakening nightmares scenes of 9-11, causing outrage and international incident with the USA … 🙂
If u wanna hear a pilot opinion about it. This is autogyro – not a helicopter as a rotor is driven only by the force of air. It needs a runway and it can carry limited payload.
U do need ultralight pilot license to fly it – around 3k kd at least. It can’t be certified for commercial passenger transportation because of one engine – so legally no one can sell you a ticket to board that thing.
Operation wise – it will neither be a car nor an airplane- will perform equally bad:) Its like combining a phone and hairdryer.
Finally- autogyro is not easy thing to fly as it has a gyroscopic properties and all control inputs are a bit different compared to normal aircraft.
It LOOKS so impractical. It obvious it needs a runway and we need provisions for that hence the vehicle can never act as an ‘Air Taxi’.
Just stick with Helicopters for Air Taxis.