Dreams of flying

23 March 2017

Airbus, in collaboration with Italdesign unveiled a concept Pop.Up

You can safe to say that people always wanted to fly. And has learned – planes, balloons, jetpacks. But here is the car for over a hundred years, and not able to lift it in the air. Really want to combine in one device the comfort of movement and small flights. Strong statements here and there from different enthusiasts on the creation of a flying car appear with an enviable regularity. But in the result we see just adapted to on the roads for the aircraft, and not flying cars. For history, we can recall only the Taylor Aerocar of 1954 year and recently introduced the Terrafugia. It also no one manufacturer is not have managed to mass-produce such a vehicle.

The latter, who said on his pursuit of the development of "locomobile" became Airbus and Italdesign. The merger of two major firms became Pop.Up Concept presented on Geneva motor show in 2017.

The producers went for a non-standard way – they are not began to combine in one vehicle the two elements. Created the passenger module and two modules functional – road and air. Situation: you eat on his Pop.Up and enjoy the views, but closer to the city, the flow of the compacted and soon the speed drops to almost "mirror," then you call on the desired station, connected to a module traction screws and one button shoots up, leaving the chassis on the ground. But the most interesting that ground, the module can return to the source database. All of the above concept, which was proposed by Airbus Italdesign embodied in Pop.Up.

Winning in the exception of the need to transport ballast in the form of wings or suspension of the car. But not think that it's a prototype – it's just a creative idea solving the problem of flight. You may need a couple of decades, that something like that stood on pipeline. So or otherwise this is a very original and interesting solution that definitely should be implemented in hardware.