It looks like a science fiction story, a car that can fly, yet it is reality. The Japanese company SkyDrive has made a successful test flight with the SD-03 in Japan, a one-person 'flying car'. The company announced this on their website. This flying car can take off vertically and land again. VTOL or Vertical Take-Off and Landing. The test was conducted on Toyota's 10.000 square meter test track. The SD-03 was piloted by a helmeted pilot during the four-minute test flight and was completed without further problems. The pilot was assisted by a computer assisted operating system. On the ground, technical personnel monitored the flight conditions and performance of the flying car.

SkyDrive wants to bring the flying car to the market by 2023 at the latest. But then also in a flying two-seater. Videos of the test flight can be found on the SkyDrive website. The aim of the company is that this flying car will serve as a new means of transport in busy urban areas for the near future. SkyDrive Inc. is a world leading developer of urban air mobility solutions. The company is a start-up that started with automotive, drone and aircraft engineers.

`` We are thrilled to have achieved the very first manned flight of a flying car in Japan in the two years since we founded SkyDrive in 2018 with the goal of commercializing such aircraft. We aim to take our social experiment to the next level by 2023 and to that end we accelerate our technological development and our business development. We want to create a society in which flying cars are an accessible and convenient means of transport in the air and people can experience a safe, secure and comfortable new way of life. We also strive to develop markets around the world, in partnership with our partner companies, so that an urban air mobility company with SkyDrive-supplied aircraft becomes a reality not only in Japan but around the world, '' said Tomohiro Fukazawa, CEO.

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