ASKA’s A5 eVTOL aircraft spread its wings but didn’t fly at Pebble Beach

I don’t know what I expected the ASKA A5 to look like in person, but the machine lurking in a parking lot just outside of Monterey Regional Airport wasn’t it. Like a cross between a piece of commercial farm equipment and a contraption from G.I. Joe’s nemesis Cobra, the A5 makes a curious first impression.
At a minimum, it’s less flying car and more drivable aircraft, and believe it or not that’s an important distinction.
I got taken for a quick spin in the A5 across the taxiway at Monterey Regional Airport ahead of the Pebble Beach Concours. It was one of the airp

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