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		Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen.
		You've always known it was just a matter of time before the world demanded some kind of flying machine which would replace the automobile.
		Moller International's M400 Skycar volantor is the next step.
	www.moller.com /skyc.htm (0 words)

	PAUL MOLLER - MOLLER INTERNATIONAL INC (MLER): 2005-03-28
		Moller: That could initially be airport to airport or vertiport to vertiport, which might be a small area in the city or a number of areas in the city, and then you would drive the Skycar from there to your appointment and then return to the vertiport.
		Moller: The major issue for us is finding the right strategic partner to make this happen because clearly this is a technology that is not something you can develop in your garage, and it is not even something you can bring to the marketplace in a small organization.
		Moller: The best vision I can give you is if you took every car that's on the highway in America today and put it in the air at the same time, they would still be miles apart, except of course near the city where you're coming in to land.
	www.twst.com /ceos/ABJ603.htm (5727 words)

	Paul Moller at AllExperts
		Moller sold Supertrapp in 1988 in order to fund development of his Skycar and its rotapower engine.
		Paul Moller is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Davis, California.
		Paul Moller was featured in Popular Science's January 2005 issue.[1]
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/paul_moller.htm (221 words)

	Consumer UFO Gearing Up for Launch
		Moller, a Canadian-born engineer fascinated by the hovering techniques of hummingbirds and mosquitoes, began working on a VTOL, or "volantor,'' in his garage in the early 1960s while he was a professor at the University of California at Davis.
		Moller modified the Wankel engine further, making it significantly lighter and connecting it directly to the fan blades that generate thrust for the Skycar.
		Moller's supporters in the scientific community say the Skycar will revolutionize the way people live, a transformation as great as when the automobile supplanted the horse-and-buggy.
	www.space.com /spaceimagined/supercar_wg.html (1128 words)

	Paul Moller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1972, Moller founded Supertrapp Industries to market his invention of an engine silencing system.
		Moller sold Supertrapp in 1988 in order to fund development of his Skycar and its rotapower engine.
		Moller is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis and lives in Davis, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Moller (198 words)

	California Inventor's 'Skycar' Poised for Lift-Off - 2004-05-27
		Paul Moller has been inventing things to whirl people through the air since he was a boy in Canada, and built a homemade ferris wheel.
		Paul Moller says the vehicle can run on any kind of fuel, from alcohol to hydrogen to natural gas, and is powered by eight small internal propeller-motors.
		Sitting in the cherry-red Skycar M400, Paul Moller demonstrates: “This is your going-forward, this is your direction, and in the air, this is where you turn left or right.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-05/a-2004-05-27-37-1.cfm?renderforprint=1&textonly=1&&TEXTMODE=1&CFID=20307507&CFTOKEN=45320883 (812 words)

	PAUL MOLLER ON MOVING MOBILITY INTO THREE DIMENSIONS \|
		Moller Research sits in an industrial park just a block or two south of Interstate 80 and a couple of miles from the UC Davis campus.
		Moller and his supporters at NASA have tried to persuade Congress to provide funding for 21 st century electronic skyways here on earth, instead of spending money on Mars.
		Moller reminded me that 40,000 people are killed in traffic accidents every year in the United States, and hundreds of thousands of others are injured, some permanently.
	www.evworld.com /syndicated/evworld_article_654.cfm (2019 words)

	Moller president to be on radio show - Boston.com
		Moller International Inc., which is developing a flying car known as the Skycar, said Friday President Paul Moller will be a guest on the "Coast to Coast AM" radio show on Saturday night.
		Moller will be on the Art Bell radio show from 11 p.m.
		Moller International is the developer of the Skycar aircraft, which the company hopes can be an alternative to automobiles.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2006/09/22/moller_president_to_be_on_radio_show (180 words)

	This Is Rocket Science, Coping with Failure Article - Inc. Article
		Paul Moller may have been working on his flying car for nearly four decades, but he's no crackpot.
		Moller, of course, is hardly the only entrepreneur to throw himself into a long-shot, long-haul venture that holds out the promise of great reward.
		By 1967, Moller was itching to spend all his time designing and developing a precursor to a mass-marketable flying vehicle that could challenge the dominance of the automobile.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20000701/19546.html (937 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : KnowHOW
		Moller is now waiting for a five-acre artificial lake with a soft bottom under construction at a site called The Milk Farm near Dixon, California, a short drive from Davis.
		Moller International, the company developing the Skycar, says a model certified by the US Federal Aviation Authority is four years away and has put an initial price-tag of $1,000,000, which can drop to $500,000 if 1,000 units are picked up by the market each year.
		Moller says safety is taken care of through high levels of redundancy and automation.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050214/asp/knowhow/story_4341771.asp (1716 words)

	Fake but Accurate? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		None other than Paul Moller, the man behind the eponymous Skycar, which has never flown higher than ankle high, but continues to draw investors to Moller, who skillfully separates them from their money, and has been doing so for almost 40 years.
		As a flying machine, the Moller Skycar is a pitiful joke, and Moller's fanciful claims for the red mock-up he showed to 60 Minutes veer deep into the realm of the absurd.
		Moller says the gasoline-fueled Skycar is designed to cruise at 300 mph, at an altitude of 20,000 feet.
	www.hoglog.com /C847460238/E1632683220/index.html (380 words)

	AzMotorNews
		Paul Moller hasn't built a flying car, but the engineer is trying to get this project off the ground.
		Moller is that rare entrepreneur who can pinpoint the genesis of his idea.
		Turns out, Moller traded a teaching post that promised a comfy tenure for what he calls "perpetual impending doom." It has forced him to be endlessly innovative, finding various sidelines to feed his Skycar project money—always more and more money.
	www.azmotornews.com /autonewsskycar05.htm (1631 words)

	Paul Moller - Popular Science
		The event might not have seemed like much—it could hardly even be called a flight—but it represented a milestone that inventor Paul Moller, a 67-year-old Canadian, had been promising journalists and investors for more than a decade.
		Nor has another of Moller’s claims come true: that 10,000 Skycars would be buzzing the airways by the end of 2002.
		Moller chose this configuration, as did Melkuti, because ducted fans produce significantly more thrust than free propellers of the same size.
	www.popsci.com /popsci/aviationspace/08b889c49db84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html (448 words)

	Stop listening to this idiot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moller has the answer tho, and all he ever needs is a couple more million dollars...
		Moller has done a few tethered test flights that show that the thing has just enough power to get it off the ground, but Igor Sikorsky did that in 1930.
		Moller is trying to use ducted fans instead of propellers on the theory that ducted fans are less intimidating, I guess, than an open prop.
	www.tysto.com /articles05/q4/20051016skycar.shtml (606 words)

	Car and Driver June 2000
		Moller calls it a "powered lift aircraft" that relies on thrust generated from eight Moller-built Rotapower Wankel-type rotary engines to rise vertically and on the aerodynamic lift of its body shape to keep it aloft in horizontal flight.
		As early as 1965 Moller had his saucerlike XM-2 in the air, and a fly-by-wire M200X with eight vertically mounted engines flew at altitudes just over 40 feet with Moller in it during the '80s and early '90s.
		Paul Moller is 63 and takes care of his health with the same mind-set he applies to his flying car.
	www.skyaid.org /Skycar/Media/CDJune2000.htm (1150 words)

	DIXON / Inventor hopes grand plan to revive venerable I-80 roadside stop will fly / Milk Farm sign lured weary ...
		Moller entered the Milk Farm's future in 1997, 11 years after the last owners hung up their spatulas and the Milk Farm went to seed, when he and a group of investors bought the 60-acre property.
		The almond butter is part of Moller's use of himself as a life-extension guinea pig.
		Moller International's assets in 2003 were $173,637, down from $438,151 in 2002.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/21/BAGDJ5OT381.DTL&type=printable (1163 words)

	THE INNOVATIONHOUSE.COM NEWSLETTER, Issue 1
		Paul Moller, of Moller International has shown that he does not belong in that category.
		His company, Moller International Inc. of Davis, California is betting that consumers are ready to embrace a radical new way of travelling by foregoing traditional commercial flights for the convenience of the Moller M400 Skycar.
		Moller International has also produced and delivered unmanned aerial vehicles (Aerobots) capable of vertical takeoff and landing and hovering, aerobots, to several customers.
	www.innovationhouse.com /newsletter1/moller_skycar.html (442 words)

	Moller Skycar - UFO - Hover Disc
		Moller has flown more than 200 manned and unmanned flights with previous models, and he is perfectly confident that his new production model will be the commuter craft of the future.
		Moller declares, "If sufficient funds were available, we could have this thing through the transition phase and be demonstrating it in a matter of months." The first units produced are estimated to cost about $800,000, and he has already 80 orders, each with a $5,000 deposit.
		Paul Moller's first flying saucer, the XM-2, took him 3 years to build and was completed in 1966, hover craft, hovering disc.
	www.mind-course.com /saucers.html (1556 words)

	USATODAY.com - He has a vision, but does he have the Wright stuff? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moller's perseverance is turning him into a heroic figure among inventors and company starters.
		Moller bought a huge tract of land, built his little office and garage and developed the rest as an office park.
		However, Moller's past is littered with predictions of when the Skycar will be ready for full-scale flights — dates that have been inevitably missed.
	www.usatoday.com /money/2004-03-30-skycar_x.htm (1803 words)

	Skycar - UFO - Moller - Flying Saucer
		Moller also invented his own patented system of variable-camber exit duct vanes that direct thrust from 7-bladed, variable-speed fans mounted on each engine to produce lift for vertical take-off and hovering.
		Moller has flown more than 200 manned and unmanned flights with previous models, and he is perfectly confident that his new production model will be the commuter craft of the future.
		Moller declares, "If sufficient funds were available, we could have this thing through the transition phase and be demonstrating it in a matter of months." The first units produced are estimated to cost about $800,000, and he has already 80 orders, each with a $5,000 deposit.
	www.braincourse.com /saucera.html (1179 words)

	G4 - Feature - Paul Moller: Skycar
		Paul Moller has spent the last 40 years developing the Skycar, a VTOL, or aircraft that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter and flies like an airplane when in the air.
		Moller has invested $100 million in the Skycar's research and development over the last 40 years.
		The current model of Skycar (the M400, a four-passenger model) is currently in unmanned, tethered flight tests at Moller International's facilities in Davis, Calif. Moller hopes to conduct the first manned flights (he'll be the test pilot) in the spring of 2004.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/47003/Paul_Moller_Skycar.html (0 words)

	Putting the "Car" into the Icarus Fable
		Moller claims the pressurized Skycar will be capable of climbing more than 1.6 kilometres in a minute, and travel nearly 1700 km at over 563 Km/h and 9144 metres.
		Moller says there’ll be plenty of opportunity for "free flight" outside of the control network, though this will require the pilot to have a Powered Lift License.
		Moller hopes eventually people will be able to take off from home, with the central command system allowing your Skycar to rise from the ground and blend in with the traffic as seamlessly as space permits, the way cars merge onto a freeway today (or are supposed to merge!).
	www.canadafreepress.com /car-reviews/skycar_04.htm (878 words)

	Paul Moller - Sacramento Magazine - January 2007 - Sacramento, California
		But in an act of what Moller calls “destiny,” he had a chance meeting with a McGill professor who, unbeknownst to either of them, was already working on the same engine design Moller was constructing in the living room of his tiny apartment.
		Moller spent much of his younger days channeling some of his competitiveness into racing go-karts and motorcycles—something his second wife, Vicki Schlecter, says led to more than a few bad accidents.
		Schlecter says Moller’s propensity for getting hurt was so great, any time he started a project, she would immediately get dressed and ready to take him to the emergency room.
	www.sacmag.com /media/Sacramento-Magazine/January-2007/Personality (0 words)

	Wired 8.01: Over Drive
		Ten years and millions of dollars later, Moller's M400 Skycar continues to justify the early optimism, though it has yet to fly and has plenty of competition.
		Moller International is taking advance orders for the M400 series, which the company thinks could be in commercial production by 2002, but is probably a decade or two from most family budgets.
		Once SATS is in place, Moller envisions commuters linking the Skycar's onboard computers to the tracking system and letting it set the course.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.01/flyingcar.html (909 words)

	TheStockbroker.com - Stock Newsletter and Stock Quotes!
		PAUL S. As a child growing up in Southeastern British Columbia, Paul Moller was fascinated with flying and dreamed of inventing a flying machine that could be easily operated and maintained by the general public and yet was not as inherently dangerous, difficult to operate, or expensive as a helicopter.
		Paul Moller’s vision, dedication, and tenacity have produced a truly revolutionary aircraft that could have widespread consumer appeal and demand.
		Paul Moller is an accomplished visionary leader who has received numerous patents including the first U.S. patent on a fundamentally new form of powered lift aircraft.
	www.thestockbroker.com /profiles/MLER_rersearch_report_equity_2004.htm (4290 words)

	Complaint: Moller International, Inc., and Paul S. Moller
		Paul S. Moller is a resident of Dixon, California, and is MI's founder, chief executive officer, president, and a member of the board of directors.
		Moller International, Inc., a California corporation located in Davis, California, is engaged in the development and manufacture of a personal aircraft as well as related aeronautical technology.
		Moller also misled investors with statements suggesting that MI owned valuable intellectual property and patents related to the purportedly cutting-edge Skycar technology.
	www.sec.gov /litigation/complaints/comp17987.htm (0 words)

	Moller's Driven … To Fly - Moller Sky Car prototype Automotive Design & Production - Find Articles
		Moller envisions that Sky Cars will be on-call as part of an "Air Taxi" service rather than privately owned.
		Second, Moller International's analysis shows that most every form of transportation is priced at five times the cost of the powerplant.
		Moller claims the current Freedom engine has an installed stall-horsepower of 1.5 hp/lb., though it can produce double that if needed in an emergency situation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_10_113/ai_79588656 (886 words)

	Mobility Without Mess
		Moller, who grew up on a chicken farm and went on to get his Ph.D. in aeronautics from McGill University, has spent more than $45 million and 700,000 man-hours of work to bring you the M400 Skycar.
		Now president of Moller International, the former West Kootenay resident has spent the better part of his life designing the “volantor,” a craft capable of vertical take-off and landing, hovering, and cruising at 350 miles per hour, at altitudes up to 25,000 feet, with a 900-mile range.
		While Paul Moller is experimenting with alternative fuels, it is entirely possible his Skycar will simply transfer the automobile’s problems on the land into the air.
	www.zerowaste.ca /articles/column7.html (1290 words)

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