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Article #1643Re: Small Hovering Hobby Robots
From: THOMPSON,JOHN C
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 13:16
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 13:16
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Did anyone see the article about the Moeller flying car in Popular Science last
year? Supposedly Moeller has been working on this flying car which hovers as
well as travels 300mph+. If I recall he had developed a lightweight rotary
engine just for this application. The vehicle was computer controlled and
guided by a single joystick. Supposedly the average person could pilot the
vehicle with little or no training. The article showed an actual working
prototype which hovered with Moeller in it (a crane was used as a safety
net). For mere $100,000 you can reserve yourself a complete vehicle. I believe
he used four engines. For what its worth.
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THOMPSON,JOHN C
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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