it has lift, but totally unstable. If the inventor had spent all the investor money in hiring competent engineers and r & d instead of a lavish life style, maybe it would control properly. All this thing is ,is a great looking failed toy with a nice paint job..This thing was a huge disappointment.
This project has been in the running for nearly 13yrs, I've been watching their progress since then but due to the current problems with global money crisis their dream has been put on hold, just like the rest of us...
@xDBladerDx i think the rope is for precaution, @0:20 and 0:25 you can see the loosen strings, the car really can fly but i think its very hard to steer it
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guys, thier using the crane for back up... thier not going to let a 10 million dollar project get wrecked due to it dropping... They could be testing many things on it..
One engine dies, you die. Luckily, no one will ever die in this nightmare design because it's going nowhere. It has been "flying " on a cable for the last 30 years.
@MrRandomppl What the fuck, it looks nothing like a plane. It looks more like whaty I would expect a flying car to be than those fake ass ones with 3o foot wings.
Where the wheels are there is Nacelles. I sure don't need my flying car to have the aerodynamics of a van or pickup. Car wheels are too large to be aerodynamic and still tuck into the body if it had an inboard engine.
Think of this as a mix between the Jetsons and Back to the Future.
@AtrumMixer , I agree with you man!!! I have been waiting for him to show it in actual flight, yet all we have seen is a hover, He must have realized it isn't stable enough for sustained flight or something, or else we would have seen it.
I've been watching this for the last 15 or 20 years. Mollar never got it past the cable stage...no real flying....no "Jetsons"...nothing. In fact I understand he's been in trouble with "investors" money, not producing what he claimed as well. Would have been nice, too bad....
@Xramas It's on a cable and that's as far as he has ever gotten it. He's never flew it farther than just straight up because he can't get it to transition to forward flight without it crashing. Same problem they had with the Osprey for years. The props he uses with never allow for the transition to forward flight, that's why the Osprey uses such big props and their computer controller, without the computers it would of never of works, it's how they finally solved it.
Lifter technology instead of propellers? Lot less moving parts and weight = safer everything.. Throw in an andrea Rossi cold fusion electricity generator and you'd be good to go. Thumbs this comment up if you'd like some of these propeller cars to at least look at the "anti-gravity" (not anti gravity) wind lifters on youtube and adapt them instead.
@Xramas Oh really? Have you actually bothered to think about the economics involved?
First off, it runs on ethanol (which generates more ozone than gasoline-powered vehicles and isn't pollution free) and would supposedly achieve 20 miles per gallon at cruise speed (knowing Moller's optimistic projections, it would probably be about half that much in practice). While taking off and landing, it produces tremendous amounts of noise and guzzles fuel to produce enough thrust to remain aloft.
@Spartan043 yes but you do actually know that Ethanol(E85) does not make as much pollution as fossil fuel? it even makes less pollution than biogenetic Gas wich is very very clean. And 20 miles per gallon on this is nothing for a flying plane car or what you wanna call it. Sure it makes alot of noise but the so called guzzling of fuel is bullshit from your part.
@Spartan043 I have built a flying car myself though its not as high class as this guy but if you but the shaft cam vectors correct then it will take about 0.0563 liter and that is a fourth of a gallon to take off and put it in high speed for about a kilometer...
@Xramas Moller states that his rotary engines can manage 0.35 pounds per horsepower/hour specific fuel consumption. The combined horsepower of the Skycar's engines is 720, but it boosts to 1,155 during takeoffs and landings. That is one gallon of fuel per minute at the stated SFC. At cruise speed, it could throttle back to about 300 horsepower and consume about 15.9 gallons of fuel per hour. It would burn about 30 gallons of fuel to go 600 miles. Sounds good, right? Wrong.
@Xramas A Prius can go the nearly the same distance on a little over a third the fuel, if you drive it carefully. Besides, how often do people go 600+ miles without stopping? How much time do you plan to spend stuck up there in the air? How many stops are you going to make along the way? Are you going to land at the grocery store, or a fast food joint? Boy, sure will be noisy. And, it'll suck a couple gallons out of your tank each time you land to get a bite to eat or browse a store.
@Spartan043 no it will not suck a couple of gallons to land or take off. I have tested the theory of yours along time ago and if you just set everything right you have yourself a vehicle that can get you anywhere and it will pull about 0.05 gallons a mile. And that is counted on a speed of 100km/h
@Xramas 62 miles per hour? You mean just above stall speed? Oh, so you plan on having the thrust vectored downward partly all the way? Terrific! You'd have to throttle the darn thing up so high that it burns over half a gallon every minute. The M400 Skycar has stubby little wings and Moller claims that it gets a better lift-to-drag ratio than a Cessna. The specs for the M400 are not real engineering numbers, but someone's demented fantasy. Heck, I don't even think the SFC figures are accurate.
@Xramas Oh? You're not landing skycars in parking lots, you say? You're using them to taxi between car rental shops located next to airfields? Brilliant! Let's all queue up to land at an airfield with our crazy, buzzing, ethanol-guzzling little bees! Maybe we'll run out of fuel and crash while the hundred other skycars are lining up to land so their owners can walk across the street and rent an actual freakin' car.
@Spartan043 I have not tested my skyplane on an airfield if you think so. I tested it in the middle of town with the police consent. And you seem to be in the delusion that if it't a flying vehicle then it has to suck 15 gallons to land and take off. And there is where you fail so hard. There are currently 200 people working on this idea in there own way and one of these guys made a skyplane that only takes 0.0271 liter to take of and fly about 1 kilometer and then back and land altogether.
@Xramas The Skycar takes off vertically using ducted fans powered by multiple wankel rotary engines. It runs up to over 1000 horsepower in order to take off/land. The engines have a stated SFC of 0.35 lb/hp/hr, which would make them some of the most efficient rotaries on the planet. Let's say Moller is lying, and they actually only get about 0.40 to 0.48 lb/hp/hr. That's 1.3 gallons of ethanol per minute. How much time do you think it's going to take to land this thing vertically at full power?
@Spartan043 you dont know squat about airplanes i can hear that from what you are saying. You do realize that you cant land with the engines on full power? It will make you go up. And then again you are trapped in the delusion that this guy is the only one that is in for this idea. and you are trapped in a the delusion that 62 miles per hour is the stall limit for ALL airplanes. You do know that there are small aircrafts that stall at 30 miles per hour?
@Xramas First of all, it has almost no wing surface area. How can it glide better than a Cessna 172, which has a similar gross weight and a relatively large wing area?
And yes, I realize that it would begin to ascend if you kept it at full power after entering a hover. While transitioning into a hover with a Skycar at cruise power, you would begin to lose altitude and have to gun the throttle to full for a bit just to reduce your rate of descent enough that you could ease it back and land.
@Spartan043 AND that this guys plans with his skycar is not to make something that is good for economy or the enviroment. He is making this because he can. So are all scientists to. You know the space rocket was very critizised on alot of points but one point was that it needed 250 thousand gallons of fuel to go outside of the atmosphere but when it was finished it came to about 13 thousand gallons. So do you see my point and stop complaining about stuff now long before the idea is complete ok?
your driving it or kissing your ass goodbye. expensive joke that one. why not take off like a plain. better yet give me 20 million and fly it off a bridge and land it in water.
someone still getting drunk on that dream. is that you
your driving it or kissing your ass goodbye. expensive joke that one. why not take off like a plain. better yet give me 20 million and fly it off a bridge and land it in water.
someone still getting drunk on that dream. is that you
@gmodman999 ..it`s a piece of junk!....it does`nt fly very well, or very far....FACT!....it`s been around for quite a few years.and still has`nt gone into production,.....why?....because it is`nt safe!
@BadbenUK Moveable vanes mounted behind the engines deflect thrust. The speed of each engine determines thrust level while vanes provide less time-sensitive thrust direction. In addition to the vane deflection system, the nacelles rotate. This combination provides very efficient vertical thrust for vertical takeoff and hovering. As forward speed increases the nacelles will rotate from their initial position to horizontal followed by reducing the vane deflection. (From Moller.com website.)
you know.. im actually gonne be scared if normal people could fly this things... they are even worse then normal cars and look how much exidents happen with them..
@jonalululy is that a joke? its an actual car, aircraft.. Im quite sure with jet turbo engines the size of those >.> a little breeze only helps it fly, it can go like 80km/hr.. i read this in a hitwheels magazine 7 years ago. Its very real
That thing is a piece of poop, it requires too much energy to keep 'afloat'. Technology just isn't quite there to produce a personal hovering craft that is capable of decent flight for extended periods of time. Hopefully though, one will be produced in the not too distant future.
It is an interesting concept..but thats all it has been for 20 years. I really do WISH there was a proper cross country test flight, or some indication of the possibility of a commercial product. But sadly so far, nada. With the availability of gyro control today, one would think it could be adapted to this type of craft.
@Standingwithfeast If you had the slightest understanding of Physics it would be as plain as it is that you're a moron that the video is not fake. From the way the car floats around, it is obviously not being held by a cable.
@TheAcurapassion If you have eyes to see and ears to hear, LOOK CLOSELY AT TOP OF SCREEN ON THE VIDEO FROM :10 AND ON ! SEE THE RIG! MOVES UP WITH THE CAR, BUT THE CAMERA NOT MOVING. LOOK FOR THE CABLE ON THE TOP! SO BEFORE YOU BARK LIKE A DOG, AND SMART BY DOING SOME RESEARCH BEFORE TALKING PHYSICS WITH ME. I AM NOT INTRESTED IN ARGUING WHAT A MORON YOU ARE.
@Standingwithfeast What does it matter to you if it's fake any way? Are you just trying to exert your vast personal intellect and prove to everyone how intelligent you are?
@TheAcurapassion GUYS LOOK AT THE VIDEO FROM :10 SEE ABOVE THE RIG AND THE CABLES AFTER THAT. I DOUBT YOU'LL APOLOGIZE FOR BEING MEAN FOR NO GOOD REASON AND ACCUSE ME OF THINGS NO TRUE. BYE BYE.
Boy, that looks as dangerous as a Space Shuttle or Harrier! WOW! I am scared of it, except if I had the money I would by two and some life insurance just in case.
This IS the ONLY film I've ever seen of this thing in the air. Reporters only ever get to see it on the ground, NEVER flying. And that's over the past twenty years it's been around. it looks highly unstable, yes it was on a tether from a crane, but it was flying under its own power. The crane is just incase the power cuts and it drops like a brick. but it looks ruddy dangerous. I'd bet on it never, ever, flying properly ! If they caan't get it to work by now, it never will.
hardly enough computing power going on to keep the thing properly level. whoever designed it has like a decade before they could compete with the design ability of any current large corporation (if they ever reach that point).
First off this is a huge company researching and developing these crafts. They are real, tethered to a cable for safety, these are just test flights and liftoff to make sure it works properly. they arent done researching but these are real.
@ninja3p your fU(k!ng fake... Do you see that cable? I know you do... But its not holding it up. Its just a safety cable. Do you really think this is fake? Think about this for a minute:If they didn't have the cable and it failed the people inside it would die. Do you really want that?
If those engines really had props as designed you'd be able to tell...
Plus.. the angle of the engines in the video wouldn't allow the whole thing to swing rearward as it does and also decends controlled back to the ground with no noticeable RPM change from take off... Tottally Fake! hands down..
If those engines really had props as designed you'd be able to tell...
Plus.. the angle of the engines in the video wouldn't allow the whole thing to swing rearward as it does and also decends controlled back to the ground with no noticeable RPM change from take off... Tottally Fake! hands down..
@mystery machine PL The Hiller Flying Platform didn't have that problem because all the thrust goes through the center (like a helicopter). It's just an up-side-down ducted helicopter. If you seen the Moller one , the Hiller Flying Platform is a must-see and it has superior stability (at less than half the price) and anyone could make one with ultralight aircraft parts. See Youtube videos of it!!!
THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN (IT'S TOO COMPLEX AND EXPENSIVE TO BE PRACTICAL ANYWAY. STAR AGAIN, FIRST BY REDESIGNING THE EUREA (SPELL). AND BASE IT ON THE FLYING PLATFORM (1955) WHICH WORKED! AND IS REALLY SIMPLE AND CHEAP. YOUR UAV IS A FLYING PLATFORM (AND THAT WHY IT WORKS). JUST ENLARGE IT AND PUT CANOPY ON TOP.
It hasnt flown for 30 years......since then the space shuttle project has come and gone, 10 wars have been fought, V-stol aircraft have been made.......scramjets......A380.....weve even successfully teleported a single photon of light from one telepod to another.......miracles have been achieved in every aspect of transportation.......but not this one. This has been stuck in the mire for 30 years, and not even the crane hovering over it in the video can get it out.
I don't think this concept has went anywhere. You see no actual flying at all just hovering. Helicopters even small ones can do that anytime! Where's the beef?
@cheseney1 I think Moller have problems with engine synchronization... Watch how unstable this vechicle is. This is why they use crane as a safety feature. There is nice use of A.Lippisch projects but he still forget about electronics :-)
This video was from 1982.......the Skycar has not flown since. Right now Moller is more concerned with real cars.....the type that have blue flashing lights on the roof....and have the words "Securities and Exchange Commission" on the side.
How many knots per gallon it makes. If this will be available in dealer near us, i'll one of the few who'll get one. I don't have to worry about gridlock, or rush hour ( they actually slowdown not rush) or heavy traffic. At least rooftop parking will be use here in New York.
@KINGBABOONMOTORS : Do you know anything about this? The blades are inside the casing, very much like what you see in a jet engine. So unless you stick your head in the engine there will be no beheading.
This is real. It shows that the design is feasible, but needs work. I wish people would fucking give the guy a break so that he can further explore this concept and develop it. It would be great if we actually know for a fact whether or not it works.
The vehicle is real, but the company has pretty much folded. Moller has had too many problems and this was the only recorded hover. It had to be tethered for insurance purposes.
@gmodman999 ...The cable isn't holding it up it's just a precauction in case the engine fails the cable will stop full destruction of it. You can even see the cable limp it's not tight. pfft fuck it with a name like gmodman.. probably just an idiot.
@johnnyrckt I know it isn't holding it up, I never said it was. I said that if the skycar broke it would fall and be caught by the cable. Then what if the cable broke. It would crush you like a pancake (or a bloody flesh pancake)... Oh and I made this account like a year or two ago not knowing what to name it. So the only thing that came to mind was Garry's mod. Plus! If you were to look at my previous comments you wouldn't have made a smart mouth reply.
The 21st century and we're still trying to develop a 'flying car' driven by ducted fans which are powered by fossil fuel-drinking piston engines. We need to bring back LSD so people can start thinking 'out of the box' again.
It's a brutally unelegant design, shaky and conceptwise. Imagine the fuel consumption - utterly unsustainable. It's OK to have wet dreams, however, if your wet dream is to attach four lawnmowers to a bobbycar? Hahahaha, LOL.
It does look like there is a crane on above the car... plane... thing. But there seems to be no tension in the line. I think its there just in case the thing would go out of control. (where they could shut the engines off and the things wouldn't hit the ground.)
Fake -.-"
MusicMan9941 1 month ago
lool you can see that the car gets lifted by an crane... hahahaha
MrMangoMud 1 month ago
@MrMangoMud me too :D
MusicMan9941 1 month ago
it has lift, but totally unstable. If the inventor had spent all the investor money in hiring competent engineers and r & d instead of a lavish life style, maybe it would control properly. All this thing is ,is a great looking failed toy with a nice paint job..This thing was a huge disappointment.
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Well that looks like a great day to test out a prototype, Wet and foggy.
SoMuchMoreCreations 1 month ago
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SoMuchMoreCreations 1 month ago
nice cable attached
Twistedfilms03 1 month ago
Skycar [Remote control]
rock1grand 2 months ago
Nice leaf blower tho
davandstudios 2 months ago
This car seems to *something* balls. Now what would that something be.
nuorangejapan 2 months ago
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nuorangejapan 2 months ago
depois dizem que não existem Ovnis.
thiagoassisflex 2 months ago
vao tomar no cuuuuuuuuu
DulllBoy 2 months ago
Call me when it's quite.
hydrobot2003 2 months ago
its like a cod player in battlefield
"HOW DO I GO FORWARD!!??"
DrunkenChicken101 2 months ago 2
@DrunkenChicken101
HaHa so true.
Breakneckhydra1 2 months ago
it like, 90% of the power is used to lift the motors
neatpleats11 2 months ago
Let's film it in the rain do it makes it harder to see the crane winch LOL
Does this fly on its own apart from up and down ?
finchpaul 2 months ago
sell it as a " hovercraft " Not a aircraft.
then Moller will make money on it.
just add a airbox
JONOVID 2 months ago
roads ? where we r going we dont need roads !!
deering1134 2 months ago
i have an idea for a flying De Lorean
ZombieHunterOracle 2 months ago
This project has been in the running for nearly 13yrs, I've been watching their progress since then but due to the current problems with global money crisis their dream has been put on hold, just like the rest of us...
jordon1954 2 months ago
this is a good car for women and perfect for the drunk drivers.
OdaviidS 3 months ago
... beside there have a CRANE :P
Look at 0:10 top there :P
xDBladerDx 3 months ago
@xDBladerDx i think the rope is for precaution, @0:20 and 0:25 you can see the loosen strings, the car really can fly but i think its very hard to steer it
mom0g1 2 months ago 5
@mom0g1 it was :D
xDBladerDx 2 months ago
will we ever see this thing fly, or does it just clean the streets?
instantblowtorch 3 months ago
we put these into production along time ago... its called the helicopter
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i think they caught a ufo on tape nice
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wwwtotalitaerde 3 months ago
Any latest moller skycars?? It seen this is 2006 , no improvement at all !!!!
chandotcom 3 months ago
look the hook on the top.... lol 0:09
nesaTajkun 3 months ago
The wire, the car is hanging on has nothing to do with the flying abilities! LOL!
ZZCopter 3 months ago
It's way to loud, I'd complain about it constantly. Where is he going to operate this? Out in the desert where no one is around. Silly stuff!
BigBeerSausage 3 months ago
guys, thier using the crane for back up... thier not going to let a 10 million dollar project get wrecked due to it dropping... They could be testing many things on it..
TheRoblox11234 3 months ago
It's a big mobile fan that you have to move around with a crane?
timrs2001 4 months ago
aliens must be green of envy... ;)
gabrielirlanda 4 months ago
Just imagine the skies full of the same idiots you meet on the highways. I would move underground.
lunhil12 4 months ago
lets see it drive, i bet its really slow
siroccowgs84 4 months ago
Fail car
Omegax9000 4 months ago
there is a cable holding it up
sniper101700 4 months ago
You can tell its fake cause it moves backwards when the Enges were facing forward.
Armydude771 4 months ago
One engine dies, you die. Luckily, no one will ever die in this nightmare design because it's going nowhere. It has been "flying " on a cable for the last 30 years.
winterka100 4 months ago
who the fuck would buy that hunk of shit. but atleast this is one step closer to the future
robby123ism 4 months ago
But will it blend?
MrErikz94 4 months ago
145 people got stuck in traffic this morning
zombiesurfer1 5 months ago
C'est la Zorglmobile!
proulxmontpellier 5 months ago
it looks nothing like a car
MrRandomppl 5 months ago 23
@MrRandomppl What the fuck, it looks nothing like a plane. It looks more like whaty I would expect a flying car to be than those fake ass ones with 3o foot wings.
Where the wheels are there is Nacelles. I sure don't need my flying car to have the aerodynamics of a van or pickup. Car wheels are too large to be aerodynamic and still tuck into the body if it had an inboard engine.
Think of this as a mix between the Jetsons and Back to the Future.
BFKAnthony817 2 months ago
@MrRandomppl Looks nothing like the sky either.
deesies 1 month ago
I have an idea for a flying car
LordDemosair 5 months ago 2
TAXI!
birdoffirephoenix 5 months ago
VTOL never is effecient enough to make
bartdereu 5 months ago
How you supposed to listen to your tunes?
sphinxart 6 months ago
That's as close to a flying car as we're ever going to get
DiemondProductions 6 months ago
Whats it been? over 30 years and this is the best moller have come up with so far?
Too much noice. Too heavy and clumsy and too slow progress.
It's starting to piss me off.
AtrumMixer 6 months ago 2
@AtrumMixer , I agree with you man!!! I have been waiting for him to show it in actual flight, yet all we have seen is a hover, He must have realized it isn't stable enough for sustained flight or something, or else we would have seen it.
valeofsecrecy 6 months ago
oo this car is in StarWars :))
GuytarZ 6 months ago
Too noisy.
zapbolt 6 months ago
I've been watching this for the last 15 or 20 years. Mollar never got it past the cable stage...no real flying....no "Jetsons"...nothing. In fact I understand he's been in trouble with "investors" money, not producing what he claimed as well. Would have been nice, too bad....
CaptainBossDaddy 6 months ago
This isn't fake, its in popular science from years and years ago
TimeForRave 6 months ago
This car is a pipe dream, this man needs to stop wasting his time and money on it, it will NEVER EVER work.
Ragewolf2008 6 months ago
@Ragewolf2008 he just showed you it works...
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas It's on a cable and that's as far as he has ever gotten it. He's never flew it farther than just straight up because he can't get it to transition to forward flight without it crashing. Same problem they had with the Osprey for years. The props he uses with never allow for the transition to forward flight, that's why the Osprey uses such big props and their computer controller, without the computers it would of never of works, it's how they finally solved it.
Ragewolf2008 6 months ago
fake
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Lifter technology instead of propellers? Lot less moving parts and weight = safer everything.. Throw in an andrea Rossi cold fusion electricity generator and you'd be good to go. Thumbs this comment up if you'd like some of these propeller cars to at least look at the "anti-gravity" (not anti gravity) wind lifters on youtube and adapt them instead.
RichLOAguy 6 months ago
so in the future we all need arport in our house's?
nasrudi9i 6 months ago
it's not even a car WTF!
nasrudi9i 6 months ago
A world filled with Skycars would be noisier, more polluted and consume more energy than it does at the present time.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 No it wont... Learn your science before posting ok lol
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas Oh really? Have you actually bothered to think about the economics involved?
First off, it runs on ethanol (which generates more ozone than gasoline-powered vehicles and isn't pollution free) and would supposedly achieve 20 miles per gallon at cruise speed (knowing Moller's optimistic projections, it would probably be about half that much in practice). While taking off and landing, it produces tremendous amounts of noise and guzzles fuel to produce enough thrust to remain aloft.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 yes but you do actually know that Ethanol(E85) does not make as much pollution as fossil fuel? it even makes less pollution than biogenetic Gas wich is very very clean. And 20 miles per gallon on this is nothing for a flying plane car or what you wanna call it. Sure it makes alot of noise but the so called guzzling of fuel is bullshit from your part.
Xramas 6 months ago
@Spartan043 I have built a flying car myself though its not as high class as this guy but if you but the shaft cam vectors correct then it will take about 0.0563 liter and that is a fourth of a gallon to take off and put it in high speed for about a kilometer...
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas Moller states that his rotary engines can manage 0.35 pounds per horsepower/hour specific fuel consumption. The combined horsepower of the Skycar's engines is 720, but it boosts to 1,155 during takeoffs and landings. That is one gallon of fuel per minute at the stated SFC. At cruise speed, it could throttle back to about 300 horsepower and consume about 15.9 gallons of fuel per hour. It would burn about 30 gallons of fuel to go 600 miles. Sounds good, right? Wrong.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Xramas A Prius can go the nearly the same distance on a little over a third the fuel, if you drive it carefully. Besides, how often do people go 600+ miles without stopping? How much time do you plan to spend stuck up there in the air? How many stops are you going to make along the way? Are you going to land at the grocery store, or a fast food joint? Boy, sure will be noisy. And, it'll suck a couple gallons out of your tank each time you land to get a bite to eat or browse a store.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 no it will not suck a couple of gallons to land or take off. I have tested the theory of yours along time ago and if you just set everything right you have yourself a vehicle that can get you anywhere and it will pull about 0.05 gallons a mile. And that is counted on a speed of 100km/h
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas 62 miles per hour? You mean just above stall speed? Oh, so you plan on having the thrust vectored downward partly all the way? Terrific! You'd have to throttle the darn thing up so high that it burns over half a gallon every minute. The M400 Skycar has stubby little wings and Moller claims that it gets a better lift-to-drag ratio than a Cessna. The specs for the M400 are not real engineering numbers, but someone's demented fantasy. Heck, I don't even think the SFC figures are accurate.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Xramas Oh? You're not landing skycars in parking lots, you say? You're using them to taxi between car rental shops located next to airfields? Brilliant! Let's all queue up to land at an airfield with our crazy, buzzing, ethanol-guzzling little bees! Maybe we'll run out of fuel and crash while the hundred other skycars are lining up to land so their owners can walk across the street and rent an actual freakin' car.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 I have not tested my skyplane on an airfield if you think so. I tested it in the middle of town with the police consent. And you seem to be in the delusion that if it't a flying vehicle then it has to suck 15 gallons to land and take off. And there is where you fail so hard. There are currently 200 people working on this idea in there own way and one of these guys made a skyplane that only takes 0.0271 liter to take of and fly about 1 kilometer and then back and land altogether.
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas The Skycar takes off vertically using ducted fans powered by multiple wankel rotary engines. It runs up to over 1000 horsepower in order to take off/land. The engines have a stated SFC of 0.35 lb/hp/hr, which would make them some of the most efficient rotaries on the planet. Let's say Moller is lying, and they actually only get about 0.40 to 0.48 lb/hp/hr. That's 1.3 gallons of ethanol per minute. How much time do you think it's going to take to land this thing vertically at full power?
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 you dont know squat about airplanes i can hear that from what you are saying. You do realize that you cant land with the engines on full power? It will make you go up. And then again you are trapped in the delusion that this guy is the only one that is in for this idea. and you are trapped in a the delusion that 62 miles per hour is the stall limit for ALL airplanes. You do know that there are small aircrafts that stall at 30 miles per hour?
Xramas 6 months ago
@Xramas First of all, it has almost no wing surface area. How can it glide better than a Cessna 172, which has a similar gross weight and a relatively large wing area?
And yes, I realize that it would begin to ascend if you kept it at full power after entering a hover. While transitioning into a hover with a Skycar at cruise power, you would begin to lose altitude and have to gun the throttle to full for a bit just to reduce your rate of descent enough that you could ease it back and land.
Spartan043 6 months ago
@Spartan043 AND that this guys plans with his skycar is not to make something that is good for economy or the enviroment. He is making this because he can. So are all scientists to. You know the space rocket was very critizised on alot of points but one point was that it needed 250 thousand gallons of fuel to go outside of the atmosphere but when it was finished it came to about 13 thousand gallons. So do you see my point and stop complaining about stuff now long before the idea is complete ok?
Xramas 6 months ago
your driving it or kissing your ass goodbye. expensive joke that one. why not take off like a plain. better yet give me 20 million and fly it off a bridge and land it in water.
someone still getting drunk on that dream. is that you
ps 20 million in the 80's
holmested7 7 months ago
your driving it or kissing your ass goodbye. expensive joke that one. why not take off like a plain. better yet give me 20 million and fly it off a bridge and land it in water.
someone still getting drunk on that dream. is that you
holmested7 7 months ago
You're dumb, the wire at the top is for safety only. Do some research, it actually flys, not very well though.
zzblairzz 7 months ago
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@gmodman999 ..it`s a piece of junk!....it does`nt fly very well, or very far....FACT!....it`s been around for quite a few years.and still has`nt gone into production,.....why?....because it is`nt safe!
BENTLEYQUAMP 7 months ago
@BadbenUK Moveable vanes mounted behind the engines deflect thrust. The speed of each engine determines thrust level while vanes provide less time-sensitive thrust direction. In addition to the vane deflection system, the nacelles rotate. This combination provides very efficient vertical thrust for vertical takeoff and hovering. As forward speed increases the nacelles will rotate from their initial position to horizontal followed by reducing the vane deflection. (From Moller.com website.)
vstol 7 months ago
to bad its 100 years to early.
and yes i really really want to be wrong about that
unamaxify 7 months ago
The wire is there because if the Skycar fails, the wire is gonna keep them from going out of control, or accidentally flying away.
Anbidas125 7 months ago
Ya. It's a fake!
Gnatboy00 7 months ago
@Gnatboy00 how can you say that is fake? there's no proof its fake??
lillcavva 7 months ago
I hade that i can see something in the air indicating a wire!
swirvelx 7 months ago
Bzzzz MORE POWER SCOTTY!!!
JaxonTuso 7 months ago
you know.. im actually gonne be scared if normal people could fly this things... they are even worse then normal cars and look how much exidents happen with them..
modwebby 7 months ago
@jonalululy hahaha i know i was commenting to a couple of comments, but seriously what a stupid question.. "what if there was wind?"
hekticwoofer 7 months ago
@jonalululy is that a joke? its an actual car, aircraft.. Im quite sure with jet turbo engines the size of those >.> a little breeze only helps it fly, it can go like 80km/hr.. i read this in a hitwheels magazine 7 years ago. Its very real
hekticwoofer 7 months ago
The day I see a video where this thing takes off in one spot, and lands somewhere else....I might be impressed. Give it up, Mr. Moller.
Quellepaur 7 months ago
That thing is a piece of poop, it requires too much energy to keep 'afloat'. Technology just isn't quite there to produce a personal hovering craft that is capable of decent flight for extended periods of time. Hopefully though, one will be produced in the not too distant future.
inbredagogo 7 months ago
@inbredagogo Martin Jetpacks already being sold, 30 minutes of flight at this point.
jacksoncapper 7 months ago
It is an interesting concept..but thats all it has been for 20 years. I really do WISH there was a proper cross country test flight, or some indication of the possibility of a commercial product. But sadly so far, nada. With the availability of gyro control today, one would think it could be adapted to this type of craft.
Bravo21 8 months ago
fake, a crane was hoisting it up.
Standingwithfeast 8 months ago
@Standingwithfeast If you had the slightest understanding of Physics it would be as plain as it is that you're a moron that the video is not fake. From the way the car floats around, it is obviously not being held by a cable.
TheAcurapassion 8 months ago
@TheAcurapassion If you have eyes to see and ears to hear, LOOK CLOSELY AT TOP OF SCREEN ON THE VIDEO FROM :10 AND ON ! SEE THE RIG! MOVES UP WITH THE CAR, BUT THE CAMERA NOT MOVING. LOOK FOR THE CABLE ON THE TOP! SO BEFORE YOU BARK LIKE A DOG, AND SMART BY DOING SOME RESEARCH BEFORE TALKING PHYSICS WITH ME. I AM NOT INTRESTED IN ARGUING WHAT A MORON YOU ARE.
Standingwithfeast 8 months ago
@Standingwithfeast What does it matter to you if it's fake any way? Are you just trying to exert your vast personal intellect and prove to everyone how intelligent you are?
TheAcurapassion 8 months ago
@TheAcurapassion GUYS LOOK AT THE VIDEO FROM :10 SEE ABOVE THE RIG AND THE CABLES AFTER THAT. I DOUBT YOU'LL APOLOGIZE FOR BEING MEAN FOR NO GOOD REASON AND ACCUSE ME OF THINGS NO TRUE. BYE BYE.
Standingwithfeast 8 months ago
I met Dr Molor when I was 20. I'm 55 now. Nothing has changed.
This thing is bullshit until you see one........if ever !
tubamanb 8 months ago
Boy, that looks as dangerous as a Space Shuttle or Harrier! WOW! I am scared of it, except if I had the money I would by two and some life insurance just in case.
ThePostal67 8 months ago
QUE LINDO *-*
holmin30 8 months ago
Misleading and bi curious.
VengeanceIV 8 months ago
fake!..with 4 engines sloped this "car" MUST go forward...
GRATZIANI2002 8 months ago
This IS the ONLY film I've ever seen of this thing in the air. Reporters only ever get to see it on the ground, NEVER flying. And that's over the past twenty years it's been around. it looks highly unstable, yes it was on a tether from a crane, but it was flying under its own power. The crane is just incase the power cuts and it drops like a brick. but it looks ruddy dangerous. I'd bet on it never, ever, flying properly ! If they caan't get it to work by now, it never will.
lamboespanda 8 months ago
i love it i have been following this car for a long time its fantastic thanks fof doing somethink like this
helenamen 8 months ago
GO JETSONS
MetalWolfReaper 8 months ago
looks like a big piece of junk..i wouldn't buy one, or fly in it.
odmcarp 8 months ago
Well even helicopters can rise up like that. This "car" only has four smaller propellers.
Kratax 8 months ago
This car is Planed since 2001 I am glad to finally see it flying but to be honest i expected more and you trollers it isnt Fake!
TheMrANNA 8 months ago
VERY unstable and therefore dangerous. Too much noise too for nothing.
Almost terrifying. That's why they faded the video before landing.
08I80 9 months ago
hardly enough computing power going on to keep the thing properly level. whoever designed it has like a decade before they could compete with the design ability of any current large corporation (if they ever reach that point).
imnotdavidxnsx 9 months ago
pretty cool
Nuijin007 9 months ago
First off this is a huge company researching and developing these crafts. They are real, tethered to a cable for safety, these are just test flights and liftoff to make sure it works properly. they arent done researching but these are real.
FatalEcIipse 9 months ago
@FatalEcIipse .. and finally , NO ONE GIVES A SHIT !
darrennz2008 8 months ago
Four-engine drive
godofflamers 9 months ago
@ninja3p your fU(k!ng fake... Do you see that cable? I know you do... But its not holding it up. Its just a safety cable. Do you really think this is fake? Think about this for a minute:If they didn't have the cable and it failed the people inside it would die. Do you really want that?
gmodman999 9 months ago
@gmodman999 Not only the ones inside but the ones around it
BowSsaint 9 months ago
@kentpaul0o0 Ok whatever spelling cop
gmodman999 9 months ago
Moller is on the right track, but given our current technology, we're stuck.
mbudd121 9 months ago
!!!kcuf eht tahW
DOGIE3000 9 months ago
I CAN SEE PART OF THE ABOVE THE CAR, ANY ONE HERE OF VIDEO EDITING? This is fake. at 0:18 you can even see the cords!
kotg0903 9 months ago
I CAN SEE PART OF THE ABOVE THE CAR, ANY ONE HERE OF VIDEO EDITING? This is fake.
kotg0903 9 months ago
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If those engines really had props as designed you'd be able to tell...
Plus.. the angle of the engines in the video wouldn't allow the whole thing to swing rearward as it does and also decends controlled back to the ground with no noticeable RPM change from take off... Tottally Fake! hands down..
WAvenger420 9 months ago
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If those engines really had props as designed you'd be able to tell...
Plus.. the angle of the engines in the video wouldn't allow the whole thing to swing rearward as it does and also decends controlled back to the ground with no noticeable RPM change from take off... Tottally Fake! hands down..
WAvenger420 9 months ago
If those engines really had props as designed you'd be able to tell...
Plus.. the angle of the engines in the video wouldn't allow the whole thing to swing
rearward as it does and also decends controlled back to the ground with no noticeable RPM change from take off... Tottally Fake! hands down..
WAvenger420 9 months ago
@mystery machine PL The Hiller Flying Platform didn't have that problem because all the thrust goes through the center (like a helicopter). It's just an up-side-down ducted helicopter. If you seen the Moller one , the Hiller Flying Platform is a must-see and it has superior stability (at less than half the price) and anyone could make one with ultralight aircraft parts. See Youtube videos of it!!!
Justwantahover 9 months ago
@Justwantahover That is the Moller Flying Car lol
LaughAlotCo 9 months ago
THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN (IT'S TOO COMPLEX AND EXPENSIVE TO BE PRACTICAL ANYWAY. STAR AGAIN, FIRST BY REDESIGNING THE EUREA (SPELL). AND BASE IT ON THE FLYING PLATFORM (1955) WHICH WORKED! AND IS REALLY SIMPLE AND CHEAP. YOUR UAV IS A FLYING PLATFORM (AND THAT WHY IT WORKS). JUST ENLARGE IT AND PUT CANOPY ON TOP.
Justwantahover 9 months ago
It hasnt flown for 30 years......since then the space shuttle project has come and gone, 10 wars have been fought, V-stol aircraft have been made.......scramjets......A380.....weve even successfully teleported a single photon of light from one telepod to another.......miracles have been achieved in every aspect of transportation.......but not this one. This has been stuck in the mire for 30 years, and not even the crane hovering over it in the video can get it out.
stegatops 9 months ago
I don't think this concept has went anywhere. You see no actual flying at all just hovering. Helicopters even small ones can do that anytime! Where's the beef?
cheseney1 9 months ago
@cheseney1 I think Moller have problems with engine synchronization... Watch how unstable this vechicle is. This is why they use crane as a safety feature. There is nice use of A.Lippisch projects but he still forget about electronics :-)
mysteryMachinePL 9 months ago
at 0:09 seconds in this clip the crane hoist ball gimbal attachment that is hold the "car" in the air can clearly be seen -
this is a scam - bogus - ripoff - lie - fail - con - hoax - prank -
rentatrip1 9 months ago
Did it ever fly untethered?
lst1195 9 months ago
Sound like 400 leave blowers being used at once.
mojame100 9 months ago
This video was from 1982.......the Skycar has not flown since. Right now Moller is more concerned with real cars.....the type that have blue flashing lights on the roof....and have the words "Securities and Exchange Commission" on the side.
stegatops 9 months ago
How many knots per gallon it makes. If this will be available in dealer near us, i'll one of the few who'll get one. I don't have to worry about gridlock, or rush hour ( they actually slowdown not rush) or heavy traffic. At least rooftop parking will be use here in New York.
Kote12TK 10 months ago
at 0.12 man see the sail :DD
tb13xD 10 months ago
really loud.
maxinpains 10 months ago
THAT THINGS A DEATH TRAP!!!! THE Blades will cut everyones head off that stands near it. SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!
KINGBABOONMOTORS 10 months ago
@KINGBABOONMOTORS : Do you know anything about this? The blades are inside the casing, very much like what you see in a jet engine. So unless you stick your head in the engine there will be no beheading.
Heimdall01 10 months ago
This is real. It shows that the design is feasible, but needs work. I wish people would fucking give the guy a break so that he can further explore this concept and develop it. It would be great if we actually know for a fact whether or not it works.
hellomate639 10 months ago
Loud
UNIVERSALRESOLUTION 10 months ago
The vehicle is real, but the company has pretty much folded. Moller has had too many problems and this was the only recorded hover. It had to be tethered for insurance purposes.
pocketspy 10 months ago
@pocketspy They should call the MOELLER the GUILLOTINE MACHINE!!!! Go near it and become BEHEADED!!!
KINGBABOONMOTORS 10 months ago
Mexicans need it nice leaf blower
APtolik 10 months ago
Did i mention that i hate trollers? and that this is my 8th comment in a row?
cabel = not holding it up
cabel = slacking
video = not fake or gay. but REAL...
gmodman999 10 months ago 18
@gmodman999 .. who cares Faggot
darrennz2008 9 months ago
@darrennz2008 umad homo?
gmodman999 9 months ago
@gmodman999 .. What a stunning response , just what I expect from a Huge Faggot like yourself .. Cant wait to see what your next fag comment .
darrennz2008 8 months ago
@darrennz2008 Your just mad cuz i called you a homo :P
gmodman999 8 months ago
@gmodman999 Gay and fake.
jauchiu 8 months ago
@jauchiu not that either...
gmodman999 8 months ago
@gmodman999 just kidding. It is scary though.
jauchiu 8 months ago
@jauchiu I know, imagine if the skycar broke and the cable broke and you were standing under it... *Crunch*
gmodman999 8 months ago 6
@gmodman999 ...The cable isn't holding it up it's just a precauction in case the engine fails the cable will stop full destruction of it. You can even see the cable limp it's not tight. pfft fuck it with a name like gmodman.. probably just an idiot.
johnnyrckt 4 months ago
@johnnyrckt I know it isn't holding it up, I never said it was. I said that if the skycar broke it would fall and be caught by the cable. Then what if the cable broke. It would crush you like a pancake (or a bloody flesh pancake)... Oh and I made this account like a year or two ago not knowing what to name it. So the only thing that came to mind was Garry's mod. Plus! If you were to look at my previous comments you wouldn't have made a smart mouth reply.
gmodman999 4 months ago
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BENTLEYQUAMP 7 months ago
im posting so many comments on this, arent i?
gmodman999 10 months ago
The 21st century and we're still trying to develop a 'flying car' driven by ducted fans which are powered by fossil fuel-drinking piston engines. We need to bring back LSD so people can start thinking 'out of the box' again.
cosmotcat 10 months ago
sorry im a crane operator it was lifting it
jeathat 11 months ago
@jeathat your an idiot you can see the slack in the cable
braaaaaap2234 10 months ago
mus run on flyin turd gas
2cute4you14 11 months ago
sorry, I could get there faster by driving
texasinstrument82 11 months ago
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It's a brutally unelegant design, shaky and conceptwise. Imagine the fuel consumption - utterly unsustainable. It's OK to have wet dreams, however, if your wet dream is to attach four lawnmowers to a bobbycar? Hahahaha, LOL.
veganfemale 11 months ago
too damn loud
00SupaMario 11 months ago
this was real i saw a documentary on the science channel
wazzap496 11 months ago
Thay will only allow customers to fly without the safety line
playgenie 11 months ago
It does look like there is a crane on above the car... plane... thing. But there seems to be no tension in the line. I think its there just in case the thing would go out of control. (where they could shut the engines off and the things wouldn't hit the ground.)
ReneArtStation 11 months ago 23