Moller skycar still kicking

"George Vranek" wrote in message
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"Sam Byrams" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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The article also says something about the recent hover. IIRC that was
2
years
ago. Amazing how a project he has been working on for 30 years still
can't
hover out of ground effect let alone transition to horizontal flight.
I
bet a
few million dollars worth of investment will fix that.


I bet it wouldn't.

I bet this could fly from point A to point B without speed limits. See
www.vranek.ch/aerocar.htm

George



On no, the flying car again.

Building a flying car is hard. Building a flying ONE CAR GARAGE is easier
and you can put anything in it you like. I like a Mercedes limo in a C-130
although someone suggested that a skate board duct taped to the strut of an
ultralight would work too.

bildan

Bill Daniels wrote:

Building a flying car is hard. Building a flying ONE CAR GARAGE is easier
and you can put anything in it you like.

hmm.... I wonder how big of a car you could get in a DC-3 through the
standard cargo door.

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If its a C-47, then the answer is a WW2 Jeep. I'm guessing a Mini, Metro, or
VW Bug-sans-fenders might also go. Even better would be an old Austin Healey
or Triumph, etc... then you could work the whole "Look what I brought back
from England after the war" angle.

I also once saw a photo of Martin Caidin (sp?) rolling a Harley chopper out of
a JU-52.

BTW, Moller's current incantation (incarnation? incarceration?, inceneration?)
looks an aweful lot like an XV ship that was built about 40 years ago. Four
vectored engine/props hung on the corners of what looked like a Lear fuselage.
Suffice to say that it didn't work. Ditto for Piasecki's (sp again?) Helistat
(blimp bag w/4 Sikorski helicopters welded to its keel).

I had a chance to see Bell's XV-15 in 1984 when it was on its way to Ft. Rucker
for Army trials. When it stopped in at Lafayette, LA, it taxied up to the PHI
ramp, shut down, and then spent the next 5 minutes being toweled off inside.
Apparently, it had a healthy hydraulic leak that we weren't supposed to see.
It was an impressive ship, extremely quiet, and faster than a Citation 4...
But I'd be willing to bet that transitioning in thinking from flying
rotary-wing to fixed-wing, and back again is very hard to master. After
driving my truck all day, its very hard to jump in my car and remember not to
shift out of park by pulling on the windshield-wiper stalk.

Fun stuff,
Harry