Moller Skycar
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Traffic jams - a thing of the past? Not a dream anymore…
In 1940, Henry Ford, Chairman, Ford Motor Company said: “Mark my word: A combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile. But it will come…” And now it’s here, as he predicted… the ideal car…not yet for sale, but soon. It’s not a Star Trek gadget, it’s the new Moller Skycar, M400.
The Moller Skycar is the most dreamed “flying car”, a prototype for a personal vertical take-off and landing aircraft of Paul Moller, who has been attempting to develop such vehicles for many years.
Older Skycars
The price for the first Moller Skycars is expected to be close to USD $1 million, but it will finally drop to one of a quality car, as it will have incorporated inexpensive Wankel rotary engines.
Photographs provided by Moller International, USA
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There wonderful inventions, but can you imagine the death and destruction? People are bad enough in normal cars…
I want the UFO version
Unbelievable that people are still buying Moller’s pipe dream. The M400 (or any of the other flashy “prototypes”) can do no more than hover for a few minutes. It can’t go anywhere. Moller has been taking peoples’ money for 3 decades, while promising a workable version is “just around the corner. It’s not. Until the laws of physics are repealed, Moller’s contraptions will not do what he claims.
but nobody can stop people from hoping
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the best i like it
i seems almost togood to be true, but hopfully it can be perfected
Funny thing is, there are MANY inventions that were thought to good to be true. Look at the tazer gun, the cellphone, the Laser, Aeroplanes, I could go on and on.
The pipe dreams of inventers often become the reality of our lives.
The common sense of it says that it can be accomplished with the use of computersand navigation systems that we already have in production.
Will it be in the near future? Well that is a whole other question. I do think we will see something of this nature in my life time.
I think at the very least it is fuel for thought and if Moller doesn’t do it someone else will.
Moller has been working for a long time and may possibly make it work someday. I lost faith when I lost a big bet in y2k as there where not at least a hundred skycars in the air.
Some people are working on the major problem, lift, by having a battery back up to provide extra lift for take off and landing, this does not seam to work as well as planned either. the problem of crashing was solved years ago by B.R.C. Ballistic recovery chutes, these things are amazing and unlike a lot of new stuff they work well.
Actually, he has now worked out all the flaws and soon (about 20 years) it will be only about 60k to buy! It’s safety is not in question, it’s just the mpg.
The Skycar can take off and land vertically location does not matter and the chances off crashing upon takeoff are virtually eliminated. Now you may be wondering if I really said that you can lean back and relax, maybe read a book, but it’s no joke. The Skycar would be too dangerous if flight was manual. It is controlled by GPS or Global Positioning System. This way, not only is driving unneeded but anyone can drive without risk. The four-seat Skycar is powered by eight rotary engines that are inside four metal containers, called nacelles, on the side of it. There are two engines in each nacelle so that if one of the engines in one of the nacelle fails, the other engine can keep it going. The engines lift the craft with 720 horsepower, and then thrust the craft forward. The Wankel engine replaces pistons of a conventional engine with a single triangular rotor spinning inside an oval-shaped chamber, which creates compression and expansion as the rotor turns.
I hope that explains just how ready it is. Enjoy a cup of coffee in your very own mini mini private jet on your way to work!
The invention does not make sense .if you want a car to fly attach wings .What Moller should have done instead is make a reasonable size plane that can take off and land vertically just like the miliary V-22 osprey except it will use the nacelle housing instead of a propeller engine.This would at least give the general public the opportunity to become qualified pilots and reduce the need for bigger airpots,and give entrepreneurs the opportunity to build hotel ports for landing and lodging and also increasing employment and making the world of small place.
I love this car it’s really cool
i have a different idea of a flying car just like it but my car look just like a car
i lost a lot of $$$ on mler stock. great concept, but it will never make it in the real world. besides, moller is in bankruptcy, [ i believe]. however check out the terrafuglia airplane/car. its been tested, flown, and is near to faa approval. its real and cost will be approx 175,000.00 available approx 2012 or sooner. you will need at least a private pilot licence as it doesnt fit the light sport catagory
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