
Flying Car to make journey to Timbuktu this week
By: Peter Chubb | January 13, 2009 | Leave a CommentIf you were to say to someone that you were going to travel to Timbuktu in a Flying Car, it will sound like something from a Jules Verne book. This week a British adventurer will travel from London across Europe and head over the Africa in his souped-up sand buggy.
Neil Laughton will travel by road, flying over the Pyrenees near Andorra as well as the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and stretches of the Sahara desert. A young British inventor has designed the Skycar, and can fly by a touch of a button as if it was a microlite.
Mr. Laughton aims to fly to the West African country of Mali and its city of Timbuktu; the 4,000-mile journey will take 42 days to complete. He had hoped to travel by air across the English Channel but civil aviation officials vetoed idea.
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