American Air car 1989

I built this when i was 15 which was about 18 years ago. I could make no progress with car companies on starting a working car prototype as I was a minor and had no degrees.

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• 1989

[Topazman12]

Keep up your work. Terry Miller invented the Air Car in 1979 in USA. You can do it too.

[alzcove]

@Topazman12 Terry Miller was a good friend of mine and my mentor on this project.

I improved his design considerably, and it was with much help from him that i completed mine. He was a keen mind amd is missed. Mr Miller passed away some years ago, complications due to his diabeties, may he RIP.

[bruceok]

"I built this when i was 15 which was about 18 years ago. I could make no progress with car companies on starting a working car prototype as I was a minor and had no degrees." I hope you got a patent; the French (MDI) are stealing your idea.

[alzcove]

the MDI vehicle has a completly diffrent motor and cam function. it is an entirely unique air motor design, which is less capable of the conservation of my rough design. but i Laud the man and have communicated with him a few times, I urge him to continue and applaud his successes

[alzcove]

Update. As an FYI for people. I Am not working on this more, I had my run with the oil men and government agencies, way too much head-ache and expense. When I built this i had high hopes and dreams, but only ever wanted to show it could be done. This project was in hopes that showing others would inspire people to make their own and improve the processes. when i built this, gas was still less than $1.25/gal but i saw what was coming, war with Iraq just brought it sooner.

Good luck with yours!

[alzcove]

Um yes man it IS running off a basic inert mixture of nitrogen/oxygen, meaning AIR. yes the same air your breathing (although alot more pure as was for most part coming from a welding company, dirt cheap as it was considered by-product from them seperating gases to get welding oxy/acetaleyn) I actually at one point hooked a line to exhaust and a scuba mask to show it was breathable.

[pumpkinpie78]

The problem was not that you're a minor and didn't have a degree. The problem was that you didn't show them how you could've made their wallet fat.

[xlfutur1]

Had the US auto companies invested in this technology (or any!) since 1989, the arabs would be nomads living in tents today. instead they live in palatial estates and laugh at the stupid ass americans who keep telling them to produce more of what we buy from them at ridiculous prices.

[gooddiehl]

@alzcove Has any further progress been made on this?

[automan1223]

I did not know Enron, and ken lay were arab ? ....

[automan1223]

wow, thats pretty good. Back around your time University of Wisconsin or somewhere around there the college kids developed a gas powered version of that using a 9 hp ICE and a compressor to regenerate the air tanks. Air is the way of the future ! did you ever put this in a passenger car ?

[blickblocks]

1:40 sounds like industrial trance!

[jim44086]

the technolegy has been around for hundreds of years it was called the steam engine it could also run off compressed air

[mikehanoo33]

Coincidentally, therefore, it is not surprising that most research regarding ‘freely derived energy’ systems come from non ‘structured-thinking’ individuals, who recognize the possibility of such ‘systems’ because they are not contaminated with ‘cognitive dissonance’ baggage. They are willing to recognize novel attributes not previously anticipated, because they have not lent themselves to previously learned encumbrances.  --- Leslie R. Pastor

[jlb2]

Dude, you should make a "Paddle Cab" from your design and sale them to those who use paddle cabs in the bigger cities. This business could help you finance and expose your invention. the prototype bike you have in this video could easily be modified into a cab design.