Buy the Moller Skycar on eBay !!!!!

[JimNtexas]

I had thought that it had a human pilot when it made that tethered flight. Now I read on Ebay that it has never flown with a human onboard.

But that's just around the corner. Yeah...sure.

 

[mzaharis]

Mzaharis and Asquared
Thanks!
:beer:

I did not know of the darker side of the car and designer.

CE

Please don't consider me the kind of person who denigrates the efforts of maverick engineers (I like Burt Rutan as much as the next guy :beer: ), but this guy appears to me not to be the real thing.

 

[propsarebest]

Now, he is a land developer...

http://www.milkfarm.net/

 

[A Squared]

Please don't consider me the kind of person who denigrates the efforts of maverick engineers (I like Burt Rutan as much as the next guy :beer: ), but this guy appears to me not to be the real thing.

Yeah, I'm a bug adnmirer of Rutan also. The obvious distinction is that Rutan does what he says he's roing to do, repeatedly. Moller's been "developing" for 40 years and he hasn't accomplished anything but a hover, and he first accomplished that almost 40 years ago ...so 4 decades and no real progress.

 

[QuasarZ]

pretty good gas guzzler... 80/hr

 

[cynic]

Do you think he would take a prototype of the one million dollar bill I plan to earn in the future.

 

[JimNtexas]

Yeah, I'm a bug adnmirer of Rutan also. The obvious distinction is that Rutan does what he says he's roing to do, repeatedly.

Rutan does things and then talks about them.

 

[gfvalvo]

pretty good gas guzzler... 80/hr

That's what I don't get. Even with the promised bigger engines, this thing won't make a very good aircraft, nor a very good car. And it will use more fuel than both of them combined. Plus if you do manage to run out of fuel I imagine you'd be in more trouble than in either an airplane or a chopper.

So, what's the business plan? Sell it to the handful of rich guys who think it's cool? Boy, I'm ready to invest.

 

[A Squared]

That's what I don't get. Even with the promised bigger engines, this thing won't make a very good aircraft, nor a very good car. And it will use more fuel than both of them combined. Plus if you do manage to run out of fuel I imagine you'd be in more trouble than in either an airplane or a chopper.

pretty good gas guzzler... 80/hr

Not that I'm suggesting that the "performance specs" are anything but fantasy, but going on those, it's a he11 of a machine. http://www.moller.com/skycar/m400/

275 mph for 750 miles is nothing to sneeze at for personal transportation, compared to say a 182. And according to that page it would be more economical than a 182. 20 mpg at 275 mph is about 14 gal/hr.

If it *could* do what he says, it would be great. I'm a little skeptical though.

Where'd you get the 80 gal/hr number?

 

[VNugget]

"Never" is a really strong word. Imagine the things that people 50 years ago, or 100, or 150 years ago couldn't possibly imagine that are routine today.