History – Klein Vision

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Stefan Klein

FOUNDER

Stefan Klein is a Founder and CEO of KleinVision. He devoted the last twenty years converting his flying-car dream into reality.Currently he completed the flying prototype of AirCar that has been tested successfully at Nitra airport in October 2019

Stefan Klein is a Founder and CEO of KleinVision. He devoted the last twenty years converting his flying-car dream into reality. Currently he completed the flying prototype of AirCar that has been tested successfully at Nitra airport in October 2019

EDUCATION

Having graduated from Slovak University of Technology in 1983, Klein studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), and also at the École des Beaux Arts et Design, Saint Étienne in 1993. Klein became the Head of Department for Transport and Design at AFAD. He is responsibile for innovative research projects in cooperation with top automotive brands including Audi, Volkswagen and BMW. In 2005 he was appointed the visiting professor at Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow.

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OWN DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT

Klein’s passion for flying led him to co-found with his brother and close friends the AirExplore charter airline company. He has personally clocked up over 1,200 hours of flying a powered aircraft, over 3,000 hours of flying a glider and hundreds of hours as a test pilot. His ability to combine design and innovation with commercial acumen has resulted in several successful projects such as the walking excavator for Menzi Muck Switzerland, Locomotive 772, Golf car for Melex Poland and a variety of electric scooters.

AEROMOBIL I

1989

Beginning of the Klein flying cars is dated from the 1989 when he finished his diploma thesis AeroMobil - ‘Personal Vision of Transport System’. His first type was named AeroMobil I. It consists of 4 lift surfaces with the canard type design. Wing span is 2,5 meter with total length of 5 meters. Concept being off any transformation cycle and is able to fully realize car and aircraft mode. The complex aerodynamics has been solved in the series of wind tunnel tests leading the overall concept to be fully operative however the practical driving test in the existing infrastructure has not led to optimal results due to the model overall width.

Beginning of the Klein flying cars is dated from the 1989 when he finished his diploma thesis AeroMobil ‘Personal Vision of Transport System’. His first type was named AeroMobil I. It consists of 4 lift surfaces with the canard type design. Wing span is 2,5 meter with total length of 5 meters. Concept being off any transformation cycle and is able to fully realize car and aircraft mode. The complex aerodynamics has been solved in the series of wind tunnel tests leading the overall concept to be fully operative however the practical driving test in the existing infrastructure has not led to optimal results due to the model overall width.

AEROMOBIL II

1996

In the 1996 Klein unveiled the new concept with the codename AM2. This was the first prototype where the car/aircraft modes are achieved via transformation. The key step in the transformation process is the wing rotation around the main wing bolt. The new concept featured new innovations related to take-off and transformation. Both prototypes AM 1 and AM 2 are currently part of the exhibition in the Aviation Museum in Košice.

AIRCAR

2016

Stefan Klein left AeroMobil company in the 2016 to pursue his applied research and design in his own company KleinVision, s.r.o. co-founded with his friend and entrepreneur Anton Zajac in 2017. AirCar has been developed in KleinVision since 2017 and represents a brand new, patented technology. 12 patents protect a new and unique way of transformation from aircraft to car and vice versa.

AIRCAR

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Research & Development

KLEIN VISION

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KleinVision s.r.o.
Dlha 180, Nitra
Slovakia