Moller skycar still kicking

Chris,

If its a C-47, then the answer is a WW2 Jeep. I'm guessing a Mini, Metro, or
VW Bug-sans-fenders might also go. Even better would be an old Austin Healey
or Triumph, etc... then you could work the whole "Look what I brought back
from England after the war" angle.

I also once saw a photo of Martin Caidin (sp?) rolling a Harley chopper out of
a JU-52.

BTW, Moller's current incantation (incarnation? incarceration?, inceneration?)
looks an aweful lot like an XV ship that was built about 40 years ago. Four
vectored engine/props hung on the corners of what looked like a Lear fuselage.
Suffice to say that it didn't work. Ditto for Piasecki's (sp again?) Helistat
(blimp bag w/4 Sikorski helicopters welded to its keel).

I had a chance to see Bell's XV-15 in 1984 when it was on its way to Ft. Rucker
for Army trials. When it stopped in at Lafayette, LA, it taxied up to the PHI
ramp, shut down, and then spent the next 5 minutes being toweled off inside.
Apparently, it had a healthy hydraulic leak that we weren't supposed to see.
It was an impressive ship, extremely quiet, and faster than a Citation 4...
But I'd be willing to bet that transitioning in thinking from flying
rotary-wing to fixed-wing, and back again is very hard to master. After
driving my truck all day, its very hard to jump in my car and remember not to
shift out of park by pulling on the windshield-wiper stalk.

Fun stuff,
Harry