Watch: A Real-life Flying Car Takes To The Skies

An aeronautical institution successful nan US has released footage showing a conception type of its flying car performing a vertical take-off earlier flying complete an SUV.

Jim Dukhovny, nan CEO of Alef Aeronautics, told nan BBC's elder exertion newsman Chris Vallance, that he had thousands of pre-orders and hoped to commencement accumulation wrong 12 months.

For astir $300,000 (£237,000) nan institution says buyers will get an electrical flying car pinch a predicted airborne scope of 110km (68 miles). But taking a friend for a rotation whitethorn beryllium tricky - nan cockpit only has capable room for 1 and a half people.

As Vallance points out, Alef Aeronautics are not nan only ones trying to make flying cars return disconnected pinch buyers. There are besides immense technological and regulatory hurdles to overcome, truthful there's still a agelong measurement to spell earlier subject fabrication becomes reality.

Video produced by Ian Casey and Serene Khalifeh