Ultimate Flying Car

The flying car has been about five years away since 1917, when Glenn Curtiss wheeled one into a New York exhibition hall. Every decade since has produced another prototype, another magazine cover and another company that ran out of money. Ultimate Flying Car takes about three seconds: you hold W, you hit a ramp, two wings unfold out of the bodywork, and the physics of the whole thing quietly changes underneath you.

That last part is not a metaphor. Pull the game's Unity bundle apart and you find two separate vehicle controllers in the same build: BoneCracker's Realistic Car Controller V3.2 — gearbox, clutch, ABS, traction control, skidmarks, NOS — for anything that happens on tarmac, and Unity's own AeroplaneController from the Standard Assets, wind noise and control-surface animation included, for anything above it. The car does not learn to fly. It is swapped for an aeroplane and swapped back.

Around that trick sits more game than the thumbnail suggests. The free-drive world comes in two signposted halves, Ultimate City and a Theme Park, with AI traffic running through twelve sets of working lights, a coastline, a port, a baseball stadium, a football pitch and a fairground you can drive straight into. Scattered through it are 96 diamonds, 14 breakable crates, four teleport portals and 33 launch ramps. The other mode is a career: 15 numbered levels raced across six circuits, two laps each, four cars on the grid. Both take a second player on the same keyboard, which is the entire reason this studio exists.

It was published on 26 May 2022 by RHM Interactive OÜ, the Estonian company behind the twoplayergames.org portal, and last updated in November 2024. It sits at 9.1 out of 10 on CrazyGames and 4.2 out of 5 from 2,080 votes on SilverGames, and Y8 alone counts more than 476,000 plays.

The flying car is the oldest broken promise in motoring

Ultimate Flying Car is a fantasy with an unusually well-documented history of failure behind it.

1917 — the Curtiss Autoplane. Glenn Curtiss showed a three-seat car with a detachable triplane wing at the Pan-American Aeronautic Exposition in New York that February. It is counted as the first serious roadable aircraft, it made short hops, and it never achieved sustained flight; when the United States entered the war in April, development stopped.

1947 — the ConVAirCar. Convair, the firm that would build the B-36 bomber, bolted a detachable wing-and-engine unit to a fibreglass two-door. The Model 118 first flew on 15 November 1947 and crash-landed at Chula Vista three days later, out of fuel. The reason is the whole problem in one sentence: the pilot had checked the car's fuel gauge before taking off, not the aircraft's. He walked away; the prototype did not. A second machine flew in January 1948 and the programme was cancelled.

1949 to 1956 — the Aerocar. Moulton "Molt" Taylor's Aerocar is the one that actually worked. It first flew publicly at Longview, Washington, on 8 December 1949, and in December 1956 it was certified airworthy by the Civil Aeronautics Administration — the FAA did not exist yet, it was created in 1958. Getting there took roughly eight years, about $750,000 and some 700 hours of flight testing. Six were built. And the way Taylor solved the problem tells you why nobody has solved it since: the wings and tail detached and folded into a trailer that the car towed behind it. That is not a flying car. It is an aeroplane that comes apart.

The conflict is physical, not technical. A car is asked to be heavy — mass, stiffness and a structure that folds in a controlled way are what let you survive an impact. An aircraft is asked for the opposite, because every kilogram has to be held up by wing and engine for the whole flight. Add a wingspan that has to fit in a traffic lane and two powertrains that take turns being dead weight, and the idea collapses. Today's eVTOL air taxis dodge the argument by giving up on the road: EHang's EH216-S took the world's first eVTOL type certificate from China's civil aviation authority in October 2023, and it is an aircraft, full stop.

Which is what makes the game's solution honest. It does not pretend to have unified the two sets of physics. It keeps a car and an aeroplane in the same file and hands you whichever one the situation calls for.

What is actually in the file: six cars, six tracks, ninety-six diamonds

Portals list this game with two lines of copy and no numbers. The numbers are all inside the download.

Playable cars	6 — two free, four bought
Their names in the build	BmwM5, BmwZ4, ClassicCar, mustang, porsche, Supercar
Prices	0 · 0 · 1,200 · 4,450 · 10,000 · 10,950
Race circuits · levels	6 · 15
Grid	4 cars, 2 laps, 8 rival models
Diamonds · crates · ramps · portals	96 · 14 · 33 · 4
Traffic	612 AI waypoints, 21 spawn points, 12 lights

The fairground is the part people find by accident: a Ferris wheel, a claw ride, a wave swinger, a cannon and two hot-air balloons your car can ride. The code names them in Turkish — donmeDolap, lunapark, elmas for the diamonds, seyirci for the crowds — a small clue about who built it, even though the company is registered in Estonia.

Two players, one keyboard — and why that is the whole point of this studio

RHM Interactive OÜ is not a racing-game specialist. It is the company behind Two Player Games, a portal it describes as "an Estonian startup web portal initiative of RHM Interactive OÜ established in 2008", built to collect games two people can play at once in a browser. That focus shows up everywhere here: the split screen gives each player a full Realistic Car Controller dashboard with its own speedometer, gear indicator and NOS gauge, and the control scheme keeps two sets of hands apart — WASD plus Shift, Space, T and R on the left, arrows plus M, K, L and U on the right. It also explains the race format: two laps and four cars is the length of a race a second person will sit through while you both restart it for the fifth time.

Playing Ultimate Flying Car unblocked at school

There is nothing to install and no account to make. The whole game is one WebGL page, so on a locked-down school Chromebook it behaves like any other website: it either loads or the network blocks the domain, with no plugin in between to fail. Press play at the top and the city loads around you.

Two honest caveats. It is keyboard-only and desktop-only, so a phone or tablet is out. And the first load moves a lot of data — on a school connection that means a long wait on the loading bar. After that it is cached.

More games by RHM Interactive

The studio has a whole line of these city-driving games, built on the same Realistic Car Controller foundation and all playable two-up. The game's own More Games panel points at several, and these are the ones we host: Grand City Missions for mission-based driving, City Minibus Driver for something slower and stranger, Grand Cyber City for the science-fiction version with bikes and rockets, and Night City Racing for street racing after dark.

If it is the flying you came for rather than the studio, try Flying Cars Era or Cyber Truck Drive Simulator. Everything else is in the driving category.

1. Pick a mode, then a car. The menu splits into free drive and racing, each with a one-player and a two-player button. Two of the six cars are already yours; the rest carry price tags.
2. Drive first. On the ground it is a normal arcade car: W to accelerate, A and D to steer, S to brake and reverse, Space for the handbrake, Shift for NOS. Player 2 uses the arrow keys with M for nitro and K for the handbrake.
3. Get airborne. Aim at one of the ramps with the throttle pinned and the wings deploy automatically. When your dashboard shows the prompt Press "E" to fly, that key lifts you off without a ramp.
4. Steer in the air. The same keys become pitch and roll: nose down for speed, nose up to stretch the glide.
5. Land, collect, spend. Diamonds and race prizes both feed the garage, and the garage is where the other four cars are.

Five things the store page will not tell you:

• The prize ladder is brutally back-loaded. Read out of the build, Level 1 pays 200 and Level 14 pays 12,000, with 1,500 at Level 6 and 6,000 at Level 13. Grinding an early level for cash is a waste of an afternoon; one clean run late on beats the first nine rounds combined.
• The locked cars cost 1,200, 4,450, 10,000 and 10,950. Set against that ladder, the top of the range is a long way off.
• Bonus rings multiply diamonds, not points. Six blue rings, three yellow and two red, each triggering a 2 x, 3 x or 4 x Diamond Point banner. If you are saving for a car, the rings are worth more than the diamonds themselves.
• R and U are the most important keys in the game. Landing a winged saloon on a rooftop goes wrong constantly, and that key rights you where you stand instead of sending you back to the spawn point.
• Races are short and crowded. Two laps, four cars, 69 checkpoints across the six tracks. There is no room to recover from a bad first corner.