Quotes
Henry Lahore--Project leader
of an extensive Skycar study undertaken by Boeing Aircraft Company:
"With the developing airspace infrastructure in place, the Skycar will
become a widely used unpiloted air-taxi. This is the only known commuter
vehicle that can move large numbers of people very quickly and safely
and still let them conveniently choose their departure point, departure
time and destination."
J.B. Nichols---Boeing Aeronautical Systems Consultant to Henry
Lahore:
"Our estimate of Moller's Skycar performance employing these engine pods
corroborates Moller's performance estimates. The lack of any evidence of
exaggerated claims made for the Skycar vehicle performance is a hopeful
sign that the engine performance estimates are equally realistic."
Dr. Dennis Bushnell--Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research
Center:
"The volantor (Skycar) will do for car-based society what the car did
for horse-based society. It is the right solution at the right time." He
goes on to add, "It is not a question of if but when the market for
Moller vehicles will be about $1 trillion a year."
Dr. Bruce Holmes--Manager, General Aviation Office, NASA Langley
Research Center:
"Once we have the infrastructure then Moller's Skycar has a place to
grow into. Such a system is on the way. Various organizations including
NASA, the FAA, the Department of Transportation, individual states and
aviation industry groups are developing a small aircraft transportation
system."
Dr. John Zuk--Chief, Advanced Plans and Programs, NASA Ames:
"This is extremely significant," says Dr. Zuk. "It's really a
breakthrough for the type and concept and it has merits from a cost
standpoint that show promise to be a future personal transportation
system. It's a true first." Dr. Zuk goes on to say, "Moller is
different. He's got academic credentials. He's thorough."
Dr. Daniel Goldin--Recent NASA Director and Administrator, has
set down a powerful National General Aviation Vision:
"Enable doorstep-to-destination travel at four times the speed of
highways to 25% of the nation's suburban, rural and remote communities
in ten years and more than 90% in 25 years."
MSNBC Live Vote Survey- Internet:
"Will you be in the market for a volantor?" Out of 6226 responses: Yes
as soon as possible 23%; Yes after the price comes down 47%; Yes after
it's proven safe 23%; No never 7%. Investor's Business Daily-- Special
Report, "Innovations" "Moller's car might one day fulfill the prophecy
of the world depicted in cartoons like the Jetsons in which the
breadwinner commutes to work in a flying car." Inc. Magazine--"This is
Rocket Science!" "The engine was the key Moller knew, in combining
straight up flight with the speed and simplicity of a light plane."
Forbes FYI Magazine--"Are We There Yet?":
"Skycar 'pilots' will simply log on to the tracking system via on-board
computers, then stick around for any arising emergency tasks such as
deploying the craft's parachutes in the event of a catastrophic power
failure."
John Vostrez--Chief, Technical and Research Division, California
Dept. of Transportation:
He says Moller's work "goes far beyond the technology we're working on.
It makes the technology we're working on look fairly mundane." Vostrez
says Moller's idea "is to use the third dimension in a three dimensional
space as opposed to just two d:imensional space that we're tied to on
the ground. It's really exciting."
Sam Farr--Past Chairman, California Assembly Committee on
Economic Development and New Technologies (Now US Congressman and head
of the California Congressional Delegation):
Described Moller as: "Currently developing the most exciting
transportation vehicle since the car and the airplane."
World News Tonight- Peter Jennings
"A remarkable invention that could someday radically change the way we
get to work. Definitely a technology on the cutting edge. A personal
flying machine."
Dr. Michael Guillen--Science Editor, ABC's:
"Good Morning America" "Helicopters are VTOL's and so are the British
Harrier jets. What Moller has done is invent VTOL's that are cheap and
easy to operate."
Jack Kemmerly--Past Chief, Aeronautics Division, California
Department of Transportation
Says he is "excited" to see Moller combining an advance in VTOL
technology with fly-by-wire control. "If and when that accomplishment
takes place--and in my mind I know it will--Paul Moller will have struck
gold with a technology that has real applications."
USA Today--Cover story,
"Is Flying Car Model T of the Future?" "One immediate advantage would be
safety. The (Skycar) engines have so few moving parts that they should
require a fraction of the maintenance of a helicopter. One engine could
fail and the Skycar could still hover to a landing. Piloting the Skycar
should require less skill than driving a car."
Wall Street Journal--
"Upward Mobility: Fliers Build Own Planes as Industry Falters." "His
Skycar is a computer controlled, eight engine vehicle designed to travel
on roads, take-off and land vertically, carry four people through the
air at 350 miles per hour and sell, once mass production begins, for not
much more money than an automobile."
Smithsonian Institution INVENTION Series:
"The Flying Car"-Produced by the Discovery Channel "Paul Moller is
unique in this world of complex high technology. He is an independent
entrepreneur who still makes his own test flights. It is the people with
imagination and the ability to see past the end of their nose that are
going to be the ones flying instead of sitting down here in grid-lock on
the freeway."
People magazine--
"INVENTORS-Flier Paul Moller is a Former Alien With a Real Flying
Saucer" "Wary as any test pilot taking up an experimental craft, the man
in the fireproof blue suit kissed his wife before climbing into the
cockpit. One by one he started the eight rotary engines, then pushed a
small red throttle with his left-hand and a joystick with his right.
With that, engines whining, the flying saucer rose 40 feet into the air.
He took his volantor on a 150 second spin in Davis."
Henry Ford, Chairman, Ford Motor Company-1940
"Mark my word: A combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may
smile. But it will come..."
Dr. James R. Bright, Author of "Research, Development and
Technical Innovation" published 1964
Gives three examples of demand preceding delivery: "A cure for cancer, a
cure for heart disease and a practical VTOL aircraft."
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