Comments on: Boom about to go supersonic https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-about-to-go-supersonic/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:31:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David M. Cook https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-about-to-go-supersonic/#comment-1543619 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:31:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111434#comment-1543619 The Moller Skycar was terribly noisy! 8-12 tiny 2-stroke engines, all at full song, trying to lift that heavy Skycar made for quite a racket! Future flying cars will need to be as quiet as non-flying cars, or they won‘t be accepted by the public.

]]> By: Cotour https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-about-to-go-supersonic/#comment-1543606 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:19:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111434#comment-1543606 Yes, The Moller Skycar.

It was really the first serious attempt at such a thing.

Rotary engines and ducted fans.

$100K back then if I remember correctly.

Never quite made it but was going in the correct direction.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-about-to-go-supersonic/#comment-1543603 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:04:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111434#comment-1543603 The first time I saw something like a flying car was Moller’s.

I think it was on Adam Savage’s site where he said the facility only looked like a ship.

The X-Jet was more interesting

]]> By: Cotour https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-about-to-go-supersonic/#comment-1543535 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:08:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111434#comment-1543535 Related new flying technology:

DELTA CEO ON JOBY’s EVTOL / AIR TAXI’S / “FLYING CARS”

“EVTOL’s (Electric Vertical Take Off and Landing) powered by battery technology are closer to being operational than you might think.”

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/delta-ceo-on-joby-s-evtol-air-taxi-s-flying-cars-1

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