Like George, most of us push buttons for a living. But so far, few of us commute in a flying car. As with many of the technologies we "don't" have (where's my jetpack?), flying cars do exist.

The dream and promise of the flying car is more than a century old. Yet we're still not zipping around in them. Our history of audacious attempts shows why building a machine that can fly and ...

but flying cars simply are still too costly and impractical for the dream to become more than a novelty anytime soon. Jeff Wise is a contributing editor for Popular Mechanics and the author of ...

Alef, an American aeronautics company, is putting the finishing touches on a single-seater electric flying car. It’s called ... one of the most popular single-engine aircraft ever made, costs ...

While it may not have been the first, the Moller Skycar has become widely known as the original flying car ... cover of the January 1991 issue of Popular Mechanics. The aircraft includes eight ...

The flying car is finally here ... Jeff Wise is a contributing editor for Popular Mechanics and the author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger. For a daily dose of extreme fear ...

according to Popular Mechanics. In 1971, Henry Smolinski and Harold Blake died when their flying car prototype crashed and exploded. The two engineers from California were taking their car on a ...

"But making money in flying cars? That's hard ... which means "flying") showed up on the cover of Popular Mechanics in 1991, and this year the prototype has been on the covers of both Popular ...