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Tanabata festival in Sendai

Paper cranes folded by people wishing for the early reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in eastern Japan are hung in front of a department store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

Paper cranes folded by people wishing for the early reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in eastern Japan are hung in front of a department store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Oslo on eve of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Photo taken in Oslo on Dec. 9, 2024, shows candles placed by "hibakusha" atomic bomb survivors and locals to create an image of a folded-paper crane on the eve of the award ceremony for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, won by Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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J-15T at 2024 Zhuhai Air Show

ZHUHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - The folded wing of a J-15T is pictured at the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show in Guangdong province, China, November 12, 2024.

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Powerful typhoon in eastern Japan

A big paper lantern is folded up at the Kaminarimon gate in Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakua area on Aug. 16, 2024, due to the approaching Typhoon Ampil in eastern Japan.

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Peace symbol burned in Nagasaki

Police officers and firefighters investigate the scene where folded paper cranes, a symbol for peace, were burned at Hypocenter Park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on June 13, 2023. A 23-year-old man was arrested on the spot the same day.

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Photo taken May 17, 2023, shows paper cranes made by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city. Sasaki folded hundreds of paper cranes until her death at age 12 from leukemia, after learning of the legend that making 1,000 of them could make a wish come true.

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Daily Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina

An Argentinian flag is seen partially folded on May 20 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argenitna. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sadako's brother in N.Y. to spread paper cranes' message

NEW YORK, United States - Masahiro Sasaki (R), the older brother of Sadako, who died a decade after the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima during World War II, and Lee Ielpi of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center, show a paper crane folded by Sadako.

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Art event held by peace group in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, June 29 Kyodo - Wakana Miyazaki, a junior high school student in Nagasaki, ties a folded paper crane to a piece of string on June 7, 2015, at a monthly event held at the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture in the Japanese city by peace group Ring Art, a group formed by former art students of Nagasaki University.

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Yoko Ono visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Artist Yoko Ono (R) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui hold up a folded paper crane in each hand at a peace event in the city of Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 30, 2014. The 81-year-old widow of former Beatle John Lennon asked participants to spread to the world the experience of Hiroshima, which was devastated by a U.S.-dropped atomic bomb in 1945 in World War II.

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70th anniversary of Battle of Saipan

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - Folded paper cranes, a symbol of peace, are placed on a cenotaph on Saipan on June 15, 2014, during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1944 Battle of Saipan during World War II.

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Fukushima nuclear plant 2 years after accident

SENDAI, Japan - Folded paper cranes, a symbol of peace, and messages of encouragement for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are displayed in an antiseismic building at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013, about two years after the nuclear accident.

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Fukushima nuclear plant 19 months after accident

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2012, shows folded paper cranes displayed in a building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 12, 2012. Conditions at the facility about 19 months after the nuclear accident were shown to the press. (Pool photo)

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Paper crane folded by A-bomb victim

HONOLULU, United States - Yuji Sasaki (L) hands to a national park authority official in Honolulu on Sept. 22, 2012, a paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who famously battled illness caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima until her death at age 12. The crane will be put on permanent exhibit in about three months' time at the visitor center of a memorial built on the USS Arizona, which sank during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Yuji is Sadako's nephew.

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Hopes for reconstruction written on '1,000 scallop shells'

OFUNATO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows 1,000 origami paper ornaments folded in the shape of scallop shells decorating Koishihama station in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. Local people used to use real shells from farmed scallops, on which they wrote their wishes, but the scallop farming industry, along with the rail track, was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Visitors to the station, which has been out of operation since March 11, now write their wishes for the reconstruction of the area on the paper shells.

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Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return.

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East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta places 1,000 folded paper cranes at Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on March 19, 2010. Ramos-Horta is in Japan from March 14 on a weeklong visit.

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Nagasaki holds A-bombing memorial service

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman adds her offering of folded cranes at Nagasaki Peace Park on Aug. 9 in memory of A-bomb victims on the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

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10,000 Japanese paper cranes added to Tribute WTC Visitor Center

NEW YORK, United States - Ten thousand cranes folded by Japanese family members and friends of Fuji Bank employees killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers were hung April 10 as a tribute to their memory at a visitor center near ground zero.

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Blackout hits Tokyo, vicinity as power lines hit by crane

TOKYO, Japan - The crane that hit Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s power lines spanning River Edo between Tokyo and Chiba prefectures stays folded on a ship on Aug. 14. A blackout hit many parts of Tokyo and nearby Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures earlier in the day. Some commuter train services operated by East Japan Railway Co. and other rail companies, as well as Tokyo's subway services, were temporarily suspended because of the outage.

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Koizumi visits Turkish-Japanese cultural center

ANKARA, Turkey - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) is presented with folded paper during his visit to a Turkish-Japanese cultural center in Ankara Jan. 11.

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NEC launches world's thinnest fold-type, camera mobile phone

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. has launched the world's thinnest folding-type mobile phone with a 1.3 mega-pixel digital camera on the Hong Kong market, the company said on Sept. 21. In the folded position, the phone, 96 grams in weight, is 11.9 millimeters thick. NEC will sell the new mobile phone in overseas markets, but not in Japan, which uses a different transmission system.

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(1)Denmark celebrates Aichi EXPO national day

NAGAKUTA, Japan - Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his wife Crown Princess Mary float paper-folded ships on water during their visit to the Nordic pavilion at the 2005 World Exposition to mark Denmark's national day on April 20.

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(3)Nagasaki marks 59th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Children read messages attached to folded paper cranes displayed near the site of a ceremony marking the 59th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9 at the city's Peace Park.

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(8)Hiroshima marks 59th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi shows a paper crane he folded in hopes of peace on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Peace Memorial Park in the city on Aug. 6.

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(1)Japan donates stationery to Iraqi school

KHIDR, Iraq - Col. Koichiro Bansho (C), commander of Japanese noncombat troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, puts a folded-paper hat on a child's head as he visits an elementary school in the neighboring city of Khidr on March 18 to donate stationery to pupils.

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Brass-made cranes donated to Nagasaki A-bomb museum

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito (foreground) looks at strings of one thousand brass cranes donated by a Nagasaki sheet metal union July 14 to the Nagasaki atomic-bomb museum. It took six months for union members to complete the folded brass cranes, which are made from 12-centimater-square brass sheets.

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NTT DoCoMo develops wristwatch-style PHS mobile phone

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. said March 26 it has developed the world's first wristwatch-style personal handy-phone system (PHS) mobile phone (top). The WRISTOMO, whose name is a fusion of wrist and mobile, fits the user's wrist when folded and looks like a regular digital watch. When two buttons above and below the watch face are pressed, it opens up into a PHS handset (bottom L and R). The company will market the phone on the Internet, possibly in April for between 30,000 yen and 40,000 yen.

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Model flying car succeeds in test-drive

KAWASHIMA, Japan - A man operates a model flying car which completed a successful test-drive Aug. 27 in Kawashima, Gifu Prefecture. The model, one-third of the full-size version, is able to run on roads with its wings folded up (shown in photo). A Gifu industrial group has been developing the vehicle since 1997 to help boost aviation technology.

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Russian soccer team arrives in Shimizu

SHIMIZU, Japan - Russian national soccer team arrive in the city of Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 25 for the World Cup finals that begin May 31. In a welcoming ceremony, Alexander Mostovoi (C) and other Russian players receive leis of folded paper cranes from local elementary and junior high school students.

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Sweden arrive in Japan

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Students of Daito Junior Middle School hand a Swedish national flag made of ''orizuru'' (paper-folded crane) to members of the Swedish team on their arrival at Miyazaki airport for their warm-up on May 21.

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New table-tennis table developed

TOKYO, Japan - A newly-developed table-tennis table is unveiled to reporters in Tokyo on April 24. The 130-kilogram table, developed by Nittaku, can be easily folded in half by one person.

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JAWOC launches paper cranes project for World Cup final

TOKYO, Japan - Children at a Tokyo primary school hold paper cranes they folded April 19 as the Japanese Organizing Committee for the 2002 World Cup (JAWOC) launched its ''Wings of a Dream'' project, the plan to drop around 2 million paper cranes onto the pitch at the end of the World Cup final in Yokohama.

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(2)Sato Kogyo file for bankruptcy

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Yoshida, president of Sato Kogyo Co., speaks with the media in Tokyo on March 3 after his company and eight of its subsidiaries filed for protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law. Sato Kogyo is the second midsize general construction contractor to collapse in three months since Aoki Corp. folded in December 2001.

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Tanaka listens to Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - With a paper crane she folded on the table, former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka listens to her former boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi answer to an opposition member at a House of Representatives plenary session Feb. 6.

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Pupils hang paper cranes at Ikeda school

IKEDA, Japan - Two girls try to hang a chain of paper-folded cranes June 14 on the gate to Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the scene of a stabbing rampage that claimed the lives of eight schoolchildren on June 8.

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Sammy Sosa visits children's hospital

Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa, in Japan as a member of the Major League Baseball (MBL) All-Stars, poses for photographers with an unidentified Japanese girl during his charity visit to Fukuoka Municipal Children's Hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 10. He was presented with a bouquet and a string of 66 paper-folded cranes which he wears around his neck.

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Miss Universe Japan meets PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presents a paper crane that he folded to Marybelen Sakamoto, who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant, as they meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022. Sakamoto will wear a costume featuring a thousand paper cranes at the pageant to be held in January 2023.

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Miss Universe Japan meets PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presents a paper crane that he folded to Marybelen Sakamoto, who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant, as they meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2022. Sakamoto will wear a costume featuring a thousand paper cranes at the pageant to be held in January 2023.

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Artist in Egypt creates paper-folding artworks of pharaohs

STORY: Artist in Egypt creates paper-folding artworks of pharaohs DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of artworks 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ALAA SHARARA, Paper folding artist 3. various of artworks 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ALAA SHARARA, Paper folding artist 5. various of artworks 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ALAA SHARARA, Paper folding artist STORYLINE: Alaa Sharara, an arts graduate living in the Egyptian capital Cairo has turned her hobby into a livelihood by selling and marketing her paper-folding artworks through social media. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): ALAA SHARARA, Paper folding artist "Since childhood, I have loved arts. I love drawing and coloring." After graduating from college in 2017, Sharara worked as a philosophy teacher and dedicated her free time to mastering paper-folding art. The paper has to be cut into equal sizes and folded into rolls. The rolls are stuck next to each other with specialized materials to form different shapes. SOUNDBI

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JAPAN-TOKYO-VALENTINE'S DAY

(220214) -- TOKYO, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People draw Omikuji, folded fortune paper, at the Tokyo Daijingu during the Valentine's Day in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo

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Hybrid Car-Aircraft Completes A 35 Minute Flight Test - Slovakia

★Handout photo - A new milestone has been hit for AirCar - a prototype car that can transform into an aircraft and has completed a successful 35-minute flight, and at the click of a button it transforms back into a car! The aircraft completed its test flight in Slovakia, from airports Nitra to Bratislava on 28 June, which makes the aircrafts 142nd successful landing. It's capable of flying about 600 miles at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m) and has completed over 40 hours of test flights. The car/aircraft was operated by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein and its co-founder, Anton Zajac. Professor Stefan Klein described the experience as "very pleasant". The car has a BMW engine and even runs off petrol-pump fuel, but it takes much more than that for it to take flight into the air. When on the ground, the vehicle looks like a modern sports car, where the wings of the aircraft are folded smo