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Turkey's Baykar Plans Larger Flying Car Prototype After Cezeri First Flight
The company achieved an initial untethered flight with a scaled model of its Cezeri flying car in Istanbul on September 15.
Baykar's Cezeri flying car
Turkish group Baykar made a first untethered flight with a prototype of its Cezeri flying car on September 15. [Photo: Baykar]

Baykar Technologies said it will start work on larger and more advanced prototypes of its Cezeri flying car following the recent first flight of a sub-scale model. However, the Turkish group’s chief technology officer, Selcuk Bayraktar, has indicated that it may be another 10 to 15 years before Baykar has a flying car available for use in urban and suburban areas and that this may take the form of a larger model that he referred to as Alici.

The single-seat Cezeri made a first tethered flight on September 11 at the Baykar research and development center in Istanbul and made further untethered flights on September 15. The vehicle, which weighs just over 500 pounds, reached an altitude of 33 feet, which is far lower than the projected maximum operating altitude of just over 6,500 feet.