Funky Cars > Flying car team come back down to earth (From Swindon Advertiser)

[Swindon Advertiser | News] "We are delighted to have completed our mission to fly-drive from London to Timbuktu in the world's first road legal flying car," said Mr Laughton, who has scaled the highest mountains on seven continents and trekked at the North Pole. "Despite a few near misses - landing in the sea and another into a tree - the highlight for me was an extraordinary 15-minute flight from Europe to North Africa, crossing the Straits of Gibraltar."

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