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On October 15, 2026 — the day of Tesla's Roadster demo — Alef released footage of its Model A lifting off vertically, transitioning to forward flight, and gliding over a parked Roadster, a Cybertruck, and a Lexus RX. Alef calls the Roadster 'the second flying car in history.' The flight is on the record; the ranking is a claim, and it is graded here, not repeated.
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Beyond the governor's Roadster pledge: Florida Polytechnic's 'Astro,' billed as the first flying police car, and the state's Aerial Highway Network on the I-4 corridor — with testing promised by the end of 2026, per USA TODAY Network-Florida on October 21.
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The follow-up to this site's Florida flying-cars page: Florida Poly's flying police car Astro is a Jetson ONE — one seat, about 102 hp, 154 lb empty, 20 minutes of endurance — with a final FAA decision on police use expected in early December, while FDOT's plan to redirect about $197 million of federal EV-charging money into 32 vertiports draws named opposition.
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