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From July 2005

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Flying in the Face of Convention

By Don Lipper


I’m sorry I’m late for this interview,” Paul Moller apologizes. “I was caught in traffic.”
    “Too bad no one’s invented a flying car,” the reporter responds.
    “Hey, I’m working on it,” he laughs.
    Paul Moller, 68, isn’t joking. The Davis-based inventor and founder and president of Moller International Inc. has spent 40 years and $100 million to build a personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) air-land vehicle with folding wings.
    Over the years, several of his Skycars have lifted from the ground, but they’ve never flown off the assembly line. The flying car is engineered to be “street legal,” but for ground travel only, as required from home to take-off point and back. Top ground speed will be 30-35 mph and no special roads will be required, the company says.

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