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Bill Freeman wrote:

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People with that kind of money have big houses

with lots of land. The cost of fuel is no object.
There is a market for Moller Skycars. I for one
would like to see it happen.

Besides they are not as noisie (sp?) as you think.
Paul Moller invented Super Trap mufflers.

Paul Lamar

I suspect that a lot of the noise is just moving
air very fast thru a complex prop/turning vane
system - sorta like a turbojet.  I would like
to see Mr. Moller suceed, but my guess is
that the noise and safety (engine failures sound
scary as heck even with their "semi-redundant"
sustem.  If you have bad fuel or run out of
fuel, it falls like a brick.  Yikes!

I think it will fail economically, helos are a
lot safer and they sell very poorly in the
market you are talking about, altho they
do not have the claimed cruise of the
Moller..

Bill

Don't forget it has a rocket activated ballistic near 
zero level parachute just like the Cirrus.

Here is another point about the Moller Skycar.
It has such a great power to weight ratio that it
will only take seconds to take off and transition
to forward flight. Once it is moving horizontally
at flying speed the engines can be throttled way
back to conserve fuel. When you really look into it
it is not all that bad. 

I would love to have one. It would be great to take 
off out of my backyard and fly to my 600 mile distant
destination at three or four hundread MPH.

When you fly to Colorada in your C182 Bill you are
forgetting the time it takes to get to the airport,
get the plane out of the hangar and preflight it.
At a busy airport you might also have to wait in 
line to takeoff. If you file IFR that too takes 
more time. A 150 MPH airplane just does not cut 
it with me.

Also you are flying to the same destination all the 
time so it is feasible to have a second car spotted
there.

Paul Lamar
 
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