Paul,

Here's your chance. From AvWeb and NASA.

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL


    NASA Goes Looking For Flying-Car Innovations

    Have an idea for making the flying car of the future work? NASA
    wants to hear about it, and the space agency is offering $250,000 in
    prizes as encouragement. The Personal Air Vehicle Challenge
    <http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/jul/HQ_05204_Fifth_Centennial_Challenge.html>,
    announced at AirVenture last month, will pay $25,000 each for
    advances in noise control and handling qualities. The biggest
    reward, $150,000, would recognize a vehicle with two to six seats
    that can fly at least 130 mph for a 300-mile range while being
    fuel-efficient and making good time door-to-door. The idea, NASA
    engineer Mark Moore told /AVweb/, is to encourage "chaotic"
    research. "We think we understand the problem at NASA, but we could
    be wrong," he says. "Some of the greatest technological innovations
    have come from somebody playing around in their garage." During a
    forum at Oshkosh, X Prize winner Burt Rutan was critical of prize
    strategies that offer inadequate cash incentives, saying the
    challenge must be less incremental and the reward must be big enough
    to stimulate interest and investment.


Mark Moore hates me and does not like the rotary so I don't think I will
get the $150,000 but I submitted my design anyway.
http://www.rotaryeng.net/roadable.html

Paul Lamar

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