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The Moller Skycar is a flying car with VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) capability which has been under development by Paul Moller for over fifty years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2023, the M400 has not achieved free flight.
The Skycar is an unusual twin-engined pusher-configuration high-wing monoplane with twin vertical tails with a high-mounted single horizontal stabiliser. [1] The Lycoming IO-360-C1E6 piston engines are mounted on the trailing edge of each mainplane.
Skycar may refer to: Pitts Sky Car, an early (1928) attempt at vertical take-off flight by US inventor John W. Pitts. Stout Skycar, a series of four one-off light aircraft designed by William Bushnell Stout in the 1930s. Moller Skycar M400 a prototype American flying car; OMA SUD Skycar an Italian four-seat piston engined aircraft
Paul Sandner Moller (born December 11, 1936, in Fruitvale, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian engineer who has spent over fifty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle. The engine technology developed for the Skycar has also been adapted as a UAV platform called the "aerobot". [1]
The Skycar III of 1943 had a higher-powered Lycoming engine to enable operation at higher gross weight, but was otherwise similar to the Skycar II. [1] The Skycar IV of 1944 was also known as the Spratt-Stout Model 8 and the Convair 103. It was similar to the Skycar III with twin tail-booms, but fitted with twin fins and rudders. [1]
The Pitts Sky Car was an unsuccessful aircraft designed for vertical take off, by inventor John W. Pitts of Detroit, Michigan.. Pitts filed a United States patent in 1924 for a propeller, "which will cause an immediate vertical lift of any aerial car to which the propeller is attached".
The Parajet SkyCar is a roadable aircraft developed by British paramotor manufacturer Parajet, a subsidiary of Gilo Industries. It utilises a paramotor and a Paramania ParaWing (a parafoil ) attached to a roadworthy vehicle to achieve sustained level flight.
The Parajet Skycar utilises a paramotor for propulsion and a parafoil for lift. The main body consists of a modified dune buggy. It has a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a maximum range of 180 miles (290 km) in flight. On the ground it has a top speed of 112 mph (180 km/h) and a maximum range of 249 miles (401 km).