Haas machines support manufacture of innovative flying vehicle

The Parajet Skycar is a high-performance road-legal vehicle, which, by deploying a canopy and diverting power to a rear-mounted Paramotor propeller, becomes a fast, safe and versatile aircraft able to land on or off road. The two-seater Skycar was developed by 29-year-old self-taught engineer Gilo Cardozo in his workshop in Mere, Wiltshire. His firm, Parajet, manufactures and sells Paramotors to customers around the world. The two-seater Skycar base vehicle – a high-performance off-road buggy with a 1000cc motorcycle engine - was also built using Haas machines, at Rage Motorsport, based in Dunstable, Buckinghamshire, UK. The 42-day Skycar expedition travelled through France, Spain and Morocco, and then across the Sahara by way of Mauritania and Mali, before returning home via Senegal. Parajet machines a variety of components for its paramotors using its Haas VF-1 vertical machining centre. Rage Motorsport employs a Haas TL-25 CNC turning centre and a Haas VF-2 CNC machining centre to make everything from vehicle chassis parts to brake calipers and wheel hubs. The next generation Skycar will be based on a Parajet designed-and-built vehicle and will go on sale from 2010 with a price tag of approximately £50,000.