The Turkish flying car "Jazari" - which was developed with domestic capabilities - successfully passed the first flight tests.
The Turkish company "Baykar", the manufacturer of the flying car, said - in a statement yesterday - that the prototype of the flying car, weighing 230 kilograms, flew to a height of 10 meters during the tests.
She explained that the work on the flying car began with a conceptual design, and ended with the implementation of its first flight within a year and a half.
It stated that the flying car "Jazari" derives its name from the founder of cybernetics, the Muslim scholar Al-Jazari.
The company's technical director, Selcuk Bayraktar, said that they intend to make more advanced prototypes in the coming period, and to implement manned flights.
He added that it will take about 10 to 15 years for the flying car to land on the roads, and within 3 or 4 years we may see a recreational use of it in rural areas, such as ATV (all-terrain vehicle) ").
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First flight
And Turkish local media published, via Twitter, pictures showing the Jazari flying car as it began its first flight over Turkey.
The scientist Badi Al-Zaman Abu Al-Ezz bin Ismail bin Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari is considered one of the giants of engineering in history, as his inventions contributed to opening the door to the emergence of many machines that played a pivotal role in the industrial revolution in Europe, and later became the mainstay of modern civilization.
He was born on the island of Ibn Omar and from there came his title "Al-Jazari". This island was part of the Levant. Today it belongs to Turkey and is located directly on the border line with Syria.
Although it does not overlook the sea, the name of the island was given to it due to the large number of rivers around it, and there is an opinion that the name was derived from an ancient Syriac word that is “Jazrta” meaning “far away,” then it turned into an island in Arabic with the passage of time.
This engineer was considered one of the first to think and succeed in making self-propelled machines that operate without human momentum. His book, known as "The Tricks", contained the blueprints of 100 mechanical machines, and explanations for how each of them was made.
Al-Jazari used flowing water as a means to operate his machines and inventions.
Historians believe that Al-Jazari is an important link in the history of the development of the machinery industry, as he benefited from the ideas of his predecessors, and added to them additions that made those ideas ready to transfer to the modern image we know today, such as his reaching his highest discoveries, which is the theory that says, “Circular motion can Generate forward momentum. "
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Great inventor
His discovery led him to the invention of the camshaft, which is a shaft that rotates by compressing the engine’s pistons and generating a forward thrust, as it does in a car engine.
Al-Jazari used this technology to build propulsive and suction water pumps that enjoyed the self-movement technique without human or animal thrust, and he also used them in the manufacture of mechanical-moving masterpieces, often in the form of peacocks, as they were used in the palaces of Artq Bani, who are among the Turkish dynasties that ruled the Diyarbakir region. In Turkey, Al-Jazari used to occupy the position of chief engineer in their court.
The Europeans picked up the invention of al-Jazari two centuries later, and built upon it until they reached the invention of the engine, and the era of the steam trains that were the backbone of the Renaissance and the European Industrial Revolution in the Middle Ages began.
Among his valuable contributions to the development of agricultural machinery: the chain, and he was the first to use a metal chain to rotate the camshaft, the same technology used in car engines.
The prototype of the flying car weighing 230 kg, flew 10 meters during the tests (Anatolia)
In his book “The Combining Science and Useful Work in the Making of Tricks”, Al-Jazari put together a juicer, a tireless work that lasted 25 years, and it appears from his presentation that this scientist wanted those interested after him to benefit from his knowledge, as he detailed how each of the machines he invented was made.
The book that dazzled the West has been translated into several languages, and it is displayed in many museums around the world, such as Turkey, France and Britain.