Team to develop flying Humvee includes Terrafugia
Terrafugia Inc., the Woburn company developing a flying car, said it is part of a team working on a $65 million Pentagon program to develop the Transformer, a four-person flying military vehicle.
On the ground, the Transformer would function like a Humvee, but it would also be capable of providing helicopter-like mobility, Terrafugia said in a press release issued yesterday.
In the release, Terrafugia said it is the largest subcontractor to one of the two winning teams that was selected for the project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
Terrafugia's team is led by AAI Corp., a Textron company.
Intended missions for the Transformer include medical evacuation, avoidance of improvised explosive devices, remote resupply, and Special Forces insertion, Terrafugia said. "The vehicle will be able to travel 280 miles by land and air, using vertical take-off and landing to increase access to difficult terrain, and automating flight controls to enable operation by non-pilots."
The AAI image of the Transformer that appears with this post was taken from Terrafugia's website.
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