Japan is making flying cars home torch-lit Tokyo Olympics in 2020 IT information

Make a flying car to light the Olympic torch at home, may sound a bit like a dream, but a bunch of engineers are working on, hope you can make it happen in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Automotive and aircraft engineers ' goal is to, at the Olympic Games opening ceremony, this flying car driven on the track at the National Stadium in Tokyo, and then fly home to light the Olympic torch.

In order to make this car can run and fly, 20 men, ages 26 to 35, engineer, was tested in an abandoned school in the mountains. This group of engineers in 2012 by Tsubasa Nakamura led the establishment of car experts, known as the Cart!vator.

"If other areas such as scientific and technological innovation can penetrate into the battery, the speed took the future can be," Tokushima University mechanical engineering professor Masafumi Miwa said, he also Cart!vator the team.

According to the current programme, this speed 2.9 meters long and 1.3 meters wide, is based on the single-seat electric trike body modification, body four horns at each corner is equipped with two propellers, one in the lower, higher. Speed vertical landing, equipped with a steering wheel and gas pedal.

Cart!vator team hopes to speed final at 150 meters height in 50-kilometer speed.

In 2014, the Cart!vator team have developed a small prototype, 2015 team from a joint research and development employee bought a full size prototype, took 2.6 million yen, cost is donations received over the network.

Currently being tested by speed, in 1 m height of only about 5 seconds, Cart!vator team, hoped that by swapping current aluminum frame with carbon fiber reinforced plastic, will speed weight from 180 kilograms per 100 kilograms.

Biggest challenges now is how to raise the funds needed for research and development, the team is expected to be 30 million yen.

日本正制造飞行汽车点燃2020年东京奥运会主场火炬 - IT资讯

让一个飞行的汽车去点燃奥运会主场的火炬，可能听起来有点像做梦，但一帮工程师们正在研发，希望可以在2020年东京奥运会时让它实现。

汽车和飞机工程师们的目标是，在奥运会开幕式上，让这款会飞的车在东京国家体育场赛道上行驶，然后飞起来点燃奥运会主场火炬。

为了让这个车既能跑又能飞，20名年龄在26岁至35岁的工程师，正在深山里一个废弃的学校中做测试。这组工程师团队是2012年由汽车专家Tsubasa Nakamura牵头成立的，名为Cart!vator。

“如果科技革新能够深入电池续航等其他领域，这款飞车未来就可以商用了，”Tokushima大学机械工程专业副教授Masafumi Miwa称，他也在Cart!vator团队。

按照目前的方案，这款飞车2.9米长、1.3米宽，是在单座电动三轮车车身基础上改造，车身四个角每个角配备两个推进器，一个在较低处，一个较高处。飞车可以垂直起落，配备方向盘和加速踏板。

Cart!vator团队希望飞车最终可以在150米高度以50千米速度飞行。

2014年，Cart!vator团队研发出一个体型小一些的雏形品，2015年团队从一个联合研发员工手中购买了一个全尺寸的雏形，花费了260万日元，费用是通过网络募捐获得的。

目前正在测试的飞车，只能在1米的高度飞行大约5秒，Cart!vator团队称，希望通过用碳纤增强塑料更换目前的铝框架的方式，将飞车的重量从180千克降至100千克。

目前最大的挑战是如何筹集研发所需的资金，该团队预计还需3000万日元。