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Many of us have dreamed of owning a flying car someday. That dream could soon become a reality, according to a Woburn-based startup known as Terrafugia.
"We make flying cars," Terrafugia says. The startup, managed by MIT graduates, has multiple models in which they've been crafting.
A few years back, company CEO Carl Dietrich and his co-workers shocked spectators at a Wisconsin convention with a light, gasoline-powered plane that was shaped like an SUV.
The prototype's wings could fold in and it met legal highway driving requirements.
"Our first product is very much an airplane that can be driven," Dietrich told the Associated Press, "but it's putting our company in position to make a car that can fly."
Terrafugia is hoping to bring its invention full-circle within the next few years. The company says it hopes to provide customers with a version by 2017. It will be priced at $279,000.
"We need a new industry that makes personal aviation safer, as simple as driving your car, and convenient for everyone. We need a practical flying car," Terrafugia says on its website.
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