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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. Due to the project's failure to deliver and associated financial issues, Moller has been accused of deliberate fraud.
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.
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; Parajet Skycar a British parafoil ...
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". This consisted of a "mushroom-shaped" rotor of 60 blades ...
Stout planned to build the Sky Car (i.e. its original name was "Sky Car" but various newspaper and magazine articles spelled it "Skycar") [4] and sell it at the price of a moderately priced car (approximately $2000) if mass-produced in numbers.
The Saturn Sky is a convertible sports car that was produced by Saturn, and was initially released in the first quarter of 2006 as a 2007 model. It uses the Kappa automobile platform shared with the Pontiac Solstice .
Data from EASA Type Certificate General characteristics Crew: 2 Capacity: 3 passengers Length: 8.92 m (29 ft 3 in) Wingspan: 12 m (39 ft 4 in) Height: 2.7 m (8 ft 9 in) Wing area: 16.8 m 2 (181 sq ft) Empty weight: 1,460 kg (3,219 lb) Gross weight: 1,995 kg (4,398 lb) Max takeoff weight: 1,995 kg (4,398 lb) Fuel capacity: 500 litres (132 US gallons) Powerplant: 2 × Lycoming IO-360-C1E6 flat-4 ...
An expedition team led by Neil Laughton set out on 15 January 2009 to fly and drive the SkyCar from London to Timbuktu.After the Civil Aviation Authority failed to grant permits in time due to confusion over how to categorise the SkyCar, the team decided to start flying the SkyCar from northern France, [2] however, this was also not possible without permission from the CAA and the skycar was ...