Alef Aeronautics recently received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which grants them permission to start testing their “Model A” flying car. It doesn’t mean the cars are ready to go to market, but this is still a huge step forward for the technology.
As pointed out in a recent MarketWatch article, the upcoming holiday shopping season may start earlier this year due to the overlap of the Thanksgiving and Hanukkah holidays, in hopes of extending retail spending with an unusually truncated period of only 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
