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Flying Car Company Founder Explains How Airborne Automobile Works
TMZ
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2/22/2025
Jim Dukhovny makes his company's flying car sound really simple, laying out exactly how it goes full "Back to the Future" mode during an interview on "TMZ Live" ... but, interested parties are going to have to throw down serious cash to get one.
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You've got a hot product on your hands, but we've got to know how it works.
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So if you take an existing car, just a regular car, and it does function as any EV similar
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as Tesla, Lucid, or any other car, you take an engine up front and instead you put four
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smaller engines and four wheels.
00:22
In the space which is left, you put DEP, it's called distributed electric propulsion, which
00:26
means eight propeller, speed controller, motor, battery systems, independent systems.
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And the top of the car, you make a mesh.
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Mesh allows the airflow to go through, and you also make the sides of the car in a specific
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airfoil, which act as the wing.
00:44
It seems like the aerodynamics of this, more like a helicopter than an airplane.
00:48
Well, it actually has three modes.
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It has the car mode, where it functions as a regular car.
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It has a hovercraft mode when it lifts, a rotorcraft mode, and it has the airplane,
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like a biplane mode when it flies forward.
01:01
The switch between all three modes, that's where the tech and the trick is.
01:06
Okay, Jim, let's get down to basics here.
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How much?
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So we're pre-selling it for $300,000.
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It's right now, and we understand it's not going to be affordable to a lot of people
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initially.
01:18
That's because we're still a startup, a small startup, and it costs us a lot to make one.
01:23
As we grow in the number of cars which we produce, we can eventually, that's not going
01:28
to be next year, that's not going to be in five years, but eventually we can get it to
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the price cheaper than Toyota Corolla or Ford Focus because it's a simpler vehicle.
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