Japanese aircraft landed upright trials late last year

Toyota decided to invest huge capital to make the concept of vertical landing vehicles a reality by the end of next year.

Japan's Toyota is planning to launch Skydrive in late 2018, according to the Nikkei Asia Review . The Skydrive concept started in 2012, when Tsubasa Nakamura and her team won the prize in a competition with the original car design named Cartivator.

30 engineers started developing Skydive in 2014 when the project attracted many investment funds and successfully tested the small model. With investment from Toyota, Nakamura's team will develop a full-scale model for manned test flights. Aichi, Japan, will invest $ 350,000 to make Skydive a reality.

Skydrive will be equipped with the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles, including four rotary propellers.

The Skydrive will be 2.9 meters long, 1.3 meters wide and 1.1 meters high, considered the smallest aircraft in the world. The goal of the designers is to reach speeds of 100km / h and speed of 150km / h.

Skydrive will be equipped with the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles, including four rotary propellers. Movement direction is controlled by adjusting the rotation speed of each rotor. The vehicle can hover at a height of 10 meters above the ground and take up the vertical landing so it does not require a run.

Cartivator hopes the complete version will be ready by 2020 to use the Skydrive to light the torch at the Olympic Games held in Tokyo that same year. They also expect the commercial version to be available in the market in 2023.