PAL-V (Personnel Air Vehicle) from Dutch inventor John Bakker. The PAL-V project has been in development for the past six years and recently received financial backing from several private investors, allowing Bakker to promise delivery of the first customer cars by 2011 with a price tag of €100,000. Bakker’s PAL-V design features an aerodynamically shaped three-wheel body sporting a tilting rotor blade set-up that folds away when the vehicle is used on land. The PAL-V is said to be able to travel up to 1,500m, which is just under the limit for commercial air space. Power comes from a conventional gas or biodiesel internal combustion engine and top speed is a claimed 200km/h on land and in the air.




