Pentagon Flying Car

On November 12, 2008, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency division (DARPA) of the Pentagon posted a proposal for submissions on the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research solicitation page, asking for bids from small businesses to build a working prototype of a military-suitable flying car.Wired: Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project for Takeoff (November 13, 2008)

Several flying cars are in production or on drawing boards in a handful of companies, including the Terrafugia folding-wing mini-plane, the PAL-V three-wheeled gyrocopter, the Moller M200X, and another from Urban Aeronautics. Wired: Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project for Takeoff (November 13, 2008) <ref name="jalop">Jalopnik: DARPA Looking For Someone To Build Flying Cars (November 13, 2008)</ref>

The challenge is to define the major components of such a vehicle that would be suitable for military scouting and personnel transport missions, yet are small enough, inexpensive enough, and easy enough to operate that it can be widely used."—Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency proposalU.S. Department of Defense: FY2009.1 SBIR Proposal Submission