Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard


A test flight of a manned ‘flying car’ at Toyota Test Field in Toyota, central Japan in August. — SkyDrive/CARTIVATOR 2020 via AP

TOKYO: The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.

Japan’s SkyDrive Inc, among the myriad "flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful, though modest, test flight with one person aboard.

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