Skycar Media Coverage updated 07/05/01
see also Other VTOL, Military
Copies of images from http://www.moller.com/news/ about May 16 added 5/17/01
ZDNet article on the Skycar May 15- with a few reader's comments added 5/17/01
Moller News May 8?
1) Preparing up to perform a partial lift-off
2) Spin-off of Freedom Motors, which has letters of intent to purchase 500,000
engines. added 5/11/01
Skycar makes Australian debut added 3/22/01
Skycar section of Flying Made Easy - Technology Review March 2001 added 3/02/01
Flying will be as easy as driving a car 'Highway in the Sky' and Skycar in 'The Observer' added 2/26/01
Personal
car-sized VTOL could become a $1,000,000,000,000 industry,
and other material from Dr. Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley
added 2/25/01
What if your Car Could Fly? Christian Science Monitor Oct 27, 2000 added 12/09/00
A
plane in every garage? short
item on M-400 in USA Weekend added 10/09/00
E-mail sent to WSJ commenting on traffic congestion 8/31/00
Presentation by Dr. Moller to Aviation Subcommittee of US Congress May 16,
2000
Presentation with
pictures and charts,
For faster download, here is just the text
of the presentation
INC Magazine July 2000 Nice 9 page article 8/1/00
Moller Latest news at Moller web site 7/31/00
Moller International media items, 7/31/00
Popular Science June 2000 Cover Notes: I fly
Short 1 page article July 28, 2000 on Skycar at a WEB entertainment site 8/2/00
WEB news items (via AltaVista June 2000): Wankel Engines. people with aircraft projects with rotary engines, Aircraft Rotary Engine Electronic Newsletter, A conventional aircraft (not VTOL) with ducted fan derived from Moller Skycar, = Duckt
June 26 2000 LA Times article on Skycar http://www.latimes.com/news/state/updates/lat_flyingcar000625.htm
Car and Driver June 2000 had an article on Moller. As you might expect, they were negative about a vehicle which might decrease the use of cars.. Click here for the text.
Quotes from Burt Rutan in Jan 2000, describing
air transportation in the next few decades.
His view of air transportation appears to be a subset of what Skycar will offer.
Forbes FYI Magazine Spring 2000 had Skycar on front page and 1 page of text
Popular Science
magazine of March 2000 had a Skycar
cover and 4 pages inside
Here are the (large 500K Bytes each) pages - pg68 pg69
pg70 pg71.
The Skycar was woven
into 5 pages of Clive Cussler's fiction novel Atlantis
Found.
You can read three of my favorite author's pages here (scanned and OCR)
The Skycar was on pages 136-137 of Jan 2000 Wired magazine - click here for text.
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Design News 10/4/99 had a neat looking police version of M400 in black text, image
Scientific American 12/99 had a short Skycar technology item
Kansas City Star Sept 19, 1999
Village Voice article Aug 3 1999
Art Bell July 14, 1999 MP3, text notes are here
India Express (Bombay) June 13, 1999
San Francisco Chronicle March 22 1999
Hartford Advocate History of flying cars, including Skycar