It's also far from a finished product, but for people aching to hit the skies in their own "flying cars," the prototype means Kitty Hawk is one step closer to fulfilling its goal of delivering aircraft by the end of 2017. "We hope that this is more of an exciting concept than what most people have had in their minds about flying cars," Kitty Hawk aerospace engineer and test pilot Cameron Robertson told the New York Times. "This is not yet that product in terms of what we will say and what it can do, but I think it demonstrates a vision of the future."