Moler's Skycar Successfully Transitions From Vertical to HorizontalFlight

Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine and
folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:
Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine and
folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.

Come on Dan, I thought April Fool's didn't count after noontime

Jim Carriere wrote:
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:

Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine
and folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.


Come on Dan, I thought April Fool's didn't count after noontime

I don't get up until afternoon

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Awhhhh come on...Why'd you take it down. It was a good topic for the
1st.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger wrote:

Awhhhh come on...Why'd you take it down. It was a good topic for the
1st.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Who took what down?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:28:37 -0600, "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired"
wrote:

Roger wrote:

Awhhhh come on...Why'd you take it down. It was a good topic for the
1st.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Who took what down?

The three previous posts come up as "no longer on server".
From your comment it sounds like it's a server problem (used by
charger) rather than the posts being taken down.

It sounded like a good topic for the date.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Roger wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:28:37 -0600, "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired"
wrote:


Roger wrote:


Awhhhh come on...Why'd you take it down. It was a good topic for the
1st.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Who took what down?


The three previous posts come up as "no longer on server".
From your comment it sounds like it's a server problem (used by
charger) rather than the posts being taken down.

It sounded like a good topic for the date.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired


"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:
Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine
and
folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Levity aside, I am certain that the Moller air car -can- achieve
horizontal flight. At least for a short distance off a carriers
catapult.

Harry K

Harry K wrote:

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:

Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine

and

folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired


Levity aside, I am certain that the Moller air car -can- achieve
horizontal flight. At least for a short distance off a carriers
catapult.

Harry K

OK, let's do that on the condition Moler flys it.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 3 Apr 2005 18:49:25 -0700, "Harry K"
wrote:


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:
Well, to be technical about it was a picture I cut out of a magazine
and
folded into a paper airplane. It flew rather nicelly.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Levity aside, I am certain that the Moller air car -can- achieve
horizontal flight. At least for a short distance off a carriers
catapult.

From what I have seen, Theoretically it should with proper power and
controls be able to fly, BUT the practicality of 4 ducted fans,
reliability and power balancing makes the Osprey tilt rotor look safe
to me.

To provide an operable car should not be beyond reach, but to make
them safe and controllable would probably put them in the price class
of a TBM-700.

I have heard several engineers say they could fix most any thing...
given enough money, but then again one of the engineers working on the
land speed record made the statement (quite a few years ago), Given
enough HP they could even blast the Queen Mary through the sound
barrier.

I guess I'd rate the practicality of both pretty much in the same
region.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Harry K