A flying car devised by a British inventor and a team of engineers took off from London on Wednesday on an epic journey to Timbuktu, Mali, in West Africa — a trip they hope will prove the fantasy has become reality.The “Skycar” is a road-legal all-terrain buggy with a huge rear propeller and a fabric wing, the result of 18 months of design and research.”We started with a car rather than starting with an aircraft and made a car into an aircraft,” said Skycar’s creator, Giles Cardozo. “It’s a really exciting piece of kit to drive but of course, it also flies.”The Skycar’s 3,720-mile (6,000-kilometer) trip will take it through France, Spain and Morocco, then the Western Sahara, Mauritania and Mali to the famously isolated city of Timbuktu.

Flying car takes high road to Timbuktu - CNN.com

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