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Skycar Details 1990 - 2002 updated  02/22/02  

    see also Transportation/Traffic/AirTaxi  Media  Military   Safety    Other VTOL  
Overview updated Feb 2001   Executive Overview -old    Old Items   Moller's Skycar web site

Copy of Feb 2002 newsletter from Moller Inc. added 02/12/02

The M400 Skycar successfully completed an initial stable, tethered, out of ground effect hover on Jan 7, 2002. {hooray!!} They anticipate this January to achieve their technical milestone of a 1 minute hovering flight at 10 feet above the ground, which will initiate many 60 and 90 day stock options. Moller apparently became an SEC "reporting company" on 11/21/01,  and will soon be publicly traded.  Moller will have a press release soon to some 600 news services.  This information was abstracted from Moller Jan 2002 news brief, and is not yet at their website.  added 1/23/02

Moller Dec 2001 newsletter  added 12/19/01

Moller Nov 2001 news - added to this web site 11/15/01

Oct 01 newsletter had M400 design 
with folding rear nacelles
added 10/10/01

Skycar Preliminary Flight Tests to Begin  Announcement at Moller web site that ground tests have started added 4/11/01

Skycar Quotes - from Oct 1999   added 3/06/01

Skycar useful even if initially unpressurized   added 3/04/01

Flying will be as easy as driving a car   'Highway in the Sky' and Skycar in 'The Observer' added 2/26/01

Moller News Jan 2001  added 1/19/01

Ducted Fans: Discussion group includes Skycar nacelles @  www.egroups.com/group/ductfan
Ducted fan book is being published in early 2001 for $30 has sample chapters on the web    added 1/11/01

Summary graphs of Skycar Lift and Thrust 1991  
Notice that Skycar Specifications below have changed this 1991 information    added 1/08/01

Skycar Air Traffic Management can be developed at low cost. New Zealand ATC upgrade for trans-ocean cost only $4.5 million, whereas the US-FAA similar project skyrocketed above the initial $140 million estimate. From Wall St. Journal Dec 29 added 12/29/00 

Skycar can provide ultra-fresh food: I calculated back in 1993 that a Skycar service to fly fresh fish from a fishing boat 300 miles out at sea would make a modest profit with cargo of 10 cents per pound.  Such as service would provide much fresher food AND eliminate several days of non-productive travel time for the fishing boat.  Another example of the need for fresher food is the desire by the Japanese to buy only the 'same day' milk. 

Skycar Introduction ideas   added 12/10/00

How Bats Do It  predictive model of environment - a possible Skycar navigation concept added 12/04/00

ATC new design concept:  -airborne internet - use Internet protocol  added 12/04/00

Nice overview of Flying Cars, including M400 at HowStuffWorks.com   added 12/02/00

FAA executives are retiring: "about 1/2 of FAA's executives will reach retirement age within the next three years, while a quarter of the air traffic control technicians will be eligible to retire during the next two years."  from page 22 of Business and Commercial Aviation  added 12/02/00

Active Noise control of the far field noise radiated by a ducted fan  added 11/29/00  

Viewfoils from the 90's  includes the following    re-linked 11/09/00

• Skycar Will be Green
• Skycar Fault Types and Frequency
• Skycar not affected by the environment
• Fewer Accidents with Skycar than with Jets or Auto
• Safety: Active + Passive + Environment
• You Can Buy Time with Skycars
• Causes of Aircraft Crashes - bayes network
• Search at 20,000' and Rescue in 1 minute

High Disk Loading description by Dr. Paul Moller written Oct 2000  added 10/28/00

NASA has an Icing Wind tunnel. Nice for future testing of M-400. 
Winds up to 430 MPH in a test section which is 6' high, 9' wide and 20' long
Temperature is controlled from -20 to +40 degrees F
Water droplets can range from 10 to 300 micros   added 10/02/00

GM in Feb 2000 did "not rule out flying"  added 10/01/00

Skycar noise level will be same as freeway at 50 feet 8/20/00

Liquid Natural Gas is a good potential fuel for the Skycar  7/20/00  

Maintenance Free Operating Period - Fly for weeks without any repairs 
- a concept apparently initiated by Airbus.  Works well for Skycar too.

Question and responses about Skycar efficiency, turbocharging, pressurization, etc. from e-mail exchange of June 22

E-mail on Skycar price, clean fuel, and different models 6/19/00

The attached file is my response to e-mail question May 30, 2000: 
Why are major corporations such as Boeing not involved in the Skycar?

Here is a draft of ALL of the Skycar information HTML format, as of March 3, 2000. 
This file should evolve into a 100+ document of all Skycar issues, concerns, technologies, etc.  

Possible first commercial uses of the Skycar

How the Skycar system may be developed

Web site on future transportation systems - including Moller

1900 artist's conception of "aero-cabs" in Paris in year 2000 

Skycar engine has very very low pollution 1998 test of Freedom Rotopower engine in Jet Ski

Skycar Radio Frequency communications H. Lahore 1991