The flying car glides through the skies of classic science ... Alef has dubbed it the Model A and promises that it will solve modern traffic congestion. Americans will try literally anything ...

In February, the San Mateo-based company unveiled a prototype of its flying car, Model Zero, at the Silicon Valley Auto Show.

Taylor’s Aerocar, as envisioned on the July 1935 cover of Modern Mechanix. Are flying cars fated to forever be just around the corner? Or like nuclear fusion power, always 20 years in the future?

Imagine flying from Dubai to Bahrain in just 2 hours and 20 minutes, or cruising through the skies from Riyadh to Kuwait in 2 hours and 40. But you won't board a plane. You will be in a flying car. By ...