Flying auto spreads its wings

Humanity's primordial long for flight is bringing off with another wind as a Slovak model of a flying auto spreads its wings.

Enlivened by the dreamy books about flying by French writers Jules Verne and Antoine de Saint Exupery, Slovak planner and architect Stefan Klein has been sharpening his flying machine since the unanticipated 1990s. Klein has composed autos for BMW, Volkswagen and Audi.

His tasteful blue-and-white vehicle for two is six metres (20 feet) long so it fits perfectly in a carport or a parking space and tanks up at any filling station. Yet once it achieves an airstrip it can unfold its wings inside seconds turning into a plane.

Named "the planet's prettiest and best-outlined airborne car as such" by US flight magazine Flying and Inhabitat.com outline, a development site, the Aeromobil likewise has the qualification of beginning in Slovakia, the planet's biggest for every capita auto maker.