Kyle Boatright wrote:
"abripl" wrote in message
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Wright brothers may have been regarded as scamers by some. Moller has
been at this for years and seems genuine in his efforts. I personally
don't think he will succeed, but I still don't like to put people down
for pursuing a dream. We all like to identify with success and not with
failure. A lot of historical successes could not be predicted. Lets not
be so eager to put efforts down - puting down is allways easy, pursuing
a dream is not. Some dreams succeed, many don't, but that is the price
of progress.

A few obvious differences between the Wrights and Moller:

1) The Wrights operated in secrecy. Moeller has been out in the press with
his vaporware for at least 3 decades.

2) The Wrights never solicited investors, at least until well after they had
a flying aircraft.

3) The Wrights didn't try and sell their product until they had proven that
it worked.

Moller seems to make a good living by wasting other people's money.

KB




Good list. I would add:

4) The Wrights studied current literature and followed the Laws of
Physics. Moller has a concept that is inherently dangerous from the
outset, due to a failure mode that involves the contraption turning into
a flying refigerator in the case of one of multiple engines failing. No
glide. No autorotation. Just falling.