In 1923, Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva came up with a rather revolutionary idea: an aircraft that could use an unpowered ...

PAL-V's Liberty is basically an autogyro (also called a gyrocopter) that doubles as a car. In an autogyro, the rotors above aren't powered. Instead, they spin by air flowing at them as the ...

The company claims the vehicle's straightforward autogyro flying technology means that the PAL-V is economically and technically feasible in comparison to other forms of air travel. Unlike a ...

The PAL-V is a solution to increasing congestion in ... can take off without filing a flight plan. The autogyro technology means that it can be steered and landed safely even if the en ...

Deliveries of the world’s first commercial ‘flying car’ will commence in 2019 according to PAL-V, the Dutch company behind the road-legal Liberty autogyro. Based on a concept that goes back almost 20 ...

A Dutch-made mash-up of automobile and helicopter, called a PAL-V, made a splashy debut at the Geneva Auto Show. Mark Jennings Bates, the North American representative for PAL-V, says his company ...

When airborne, the PAL-V is similar to the tiny autogyro aircraft Sean Connery flew in the 1967 James Bond movie 'You Only Live Twice'. Called a gyrocopter, the design includes a rotor on the roof ...