Episode 28 - Inventor of The Flying Car with Paul Moller
Many of us grew up watching The Jetsons on TV and always dreamed of having a flying car. But flying cars are easier to animate than they are to make a reality. Paul Moller has been working on inventing a viable flying car for almost 50 years and feels it will become a reality in the next decade.
Paul Sandner Moller is a Canadian engineer who has spent over fifty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing(VTOL) vehicle.
The engine technology developed for the Skycar has also been adapted as a UAV platform called the "aerobot". The rotapower engine itself has been spun off to a separate Moller company, Freedom Motors.
Key Moments:
How Paul became inspired by a hummingbird as a small child to create the world’s first flying car
The major issue currently keeping flying cars from being a part of our daily life
Paul’s predictions for autonomous flying single passenger vehicles for the year 2030
Why Paul feels everyone else working on developing flying cars are headed the wrong direction and what he feels they should be focused on
How Paul gained his mechanical aptitude along the way to becoming an inventor
Why the engine is so critical to the process of getting a flying car to work
The issues with making a battery powered flying car and why combustion seems to be more efficient and safer
Favorite Quote:
“The hummingbird is the epitome of personal vertical take off and landing types of aircraft.”
-Paul Moller
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Dr. Moller founded the Company and has served as the company's President since its formation. He holds a Masters in Engineering and Ph.D. from McGill University. Dr. Moller was a professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, from 1963 to 1975, where he developed the Aeronautical Engineering program. In 1972 he founded SuperTrapp Industries and was Chief Executive Officer, as SuperTrapp became the most recognized international name in high-performance engine silencing systems. SuperTrapp Industries was sold in 1988. In 1983 he founded the Company to develop powered lift aircraft. Under his direction the Company completed contracts with NASA, NOSC, DARPA, NRL, Harry Diamond Labs, Hughes Aircraft Company, California Department of Transportation and the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air force. These contracts included the development and deployment of numerous unmanned aerial vehicles and Wankel based engines. Dr. Moller has received 43 patents including the first U.S. patent on a fundamentally new form of powered lift aircraft. In 1980 he developed the Davis Research Park, a 38-acre industrial- research complex within the city of Davis, CA in which the Company is located.
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