[DeTomaso] NPT Boeing Flying Car?

GW gow2 at rc-tech.net
Sat Jan 12 18:14:28 EST 2008


The guy that developed the Moller car used the Moller investments to 
build a little bit of everything for the aerospace industry. He made 
money building this widget and that widget. I don't think he ever trully 
intends to make the Moller a real product, he uses it to gather investors.



Ken Green wrote:
> Mike,
>    
>       I haven't done the math for years, but I thought that any airborne vehicle which hovers using downward thrust takes a LOT of power, and that the reason airplane work is the Bernoulli effect of air flowing over the longer upper surface of the wing to reduce pressure and get lift.  Wouldn't it take a LOT of fuel to make keep something like this off the ground?
>    
>       I'd think that if it ever made it off the ground, they'd post pictures.
>    
>   Ken
>
> Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net> wrote:
>   Not a Boeing flying car, but supposedly designed by Boeing engineers. It's
> the first I've seen of it, and makes me think of the Moller concept.
>
> http://www.moller.com/m400.htm
>
> Great idea, wonder if they'll ever work.
>
> Mike Thomas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Green
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:55 AM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPT Boeing Flying Car?
>
> Is this real?
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/The-last-Concept-Sky-Commuter-aircraft-in-Exi
> stence_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ26428QQihZ012QQitemZ220188946461
>
> All the pictures show it sitting on the ground, a little suspicious?
>
> Ken
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