Prior generations did their best predict what future technology might look like. Sometimes they got it right — as with wrist radios or voice activated AI. Sometimes they were way off — calling on all-day food pills or hover boards that actually hovered without exploding.
If you want to take a hacky, stand-up comedy stab at the problem, the all-purpose gag is our total lack of flying cars. We were supposed to all have flying cars by now. To move past the problem, a small aviation company is offering a high-tech private aircraft that looks futuristic enough to take the sting out of the flying car malaise.
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The Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie is now available for preordering and promises to be one of the fastest private, piston-driven aircraft on the market. An entirely “fly by wire” aircraft, the Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie seats five and can come bespoke if a would-be buyer wants more cargo space or weight stripped out for racing.
For early adopters, the Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie has a sticker price of $595,000. While you might see that number and scoff a little, “Well, I’ll buy two!” in this direction, consider that this reporter could rattle off the names of five supercars that sell for more than double that price. While those cars are fast, none of them truly fly like the Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie.
As there are with said cars, there are versions of factory options or trim levels with the Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie. Air conditioning is another $20,000, and the touchy suggestion of an airframe parachute will add $45,000.
The Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie will arrive for sale in 2017, but those men of means willing to put the flying car bitterness behind them can pre-order now.
