Moller M400 Skycar
The Moller Skycar is a " flying car " Developer Paul Moller, which is to replace the car as a means of individual according to the wish of his developer someday.
Paul Moller since the 1960s working on VTOL aircraft (Vertical take-off and landing. ) And built several function prototypes. The first hovers with the two-seater M200 Neuera, took place in 2003. To date ( 2013) has left none of the prototypes the ground effect.
Variants
Neuera
The Moller Neuera (also called M200X Neuera ) is a flying car in the form of a flying disc. The diameter of the disc is 10 ft (3.05 m). On and propulsion are ensured by eight ducted propeller. The top speed of 161 km / h.
The technology of Neuera forms the basis for the Skycar.
Skycar 100 LS
The Skycar 100 LS is a single-seat version of the Skycar. It is moved by two shell propellers that are each powered by a Rotapower Wankel engine and an electric motor. The overall performance of the motors is specified with 170 hp ( 125 kW). It is expected to reach a top speed of 451 km / h.
Skycar 200 LS
The Skycar 200 LS is a two-seat version of the Skycar. It is powered by two propellers mantle, which are driven by an Rotapower Wankel engine and an electric motor and a further Auftriebsdüse, powered by two electric motors that move. The overall performance of the motors is specified with 170 hp ( 125 kW). It is expected to reach a top speed of 389 km / h.
Skycar 400
The four-seat model M400 is 2013 still in the development phase. A detached by the FAA version is so sought over the next four years until 2017.
The goal is a means of transport, the vertical start without the assistance of the occupants and lands and automatically flies to any desired programmed into the onboard computer place so that no private pilot's license and no permit would be required. The problem of admission as a self- flying aircraft is still unresolved, so that even a pilot's license is required.
The M400 is designed to fit into a garage, have a rescue system and can roll to vertiport mentioned starting place. Eight rotary engines should allow at a cruising altitude of nearly 11,000 m a cruising speed of 496 km / h and a top speed of 533 km / h. Under 3000 m may be flown in accordance with applicable aviation regulations but no faster than 450 km / h. As gasoline consumption, a value of about 10 to 14 l/100 km, achieved in the area of normal cars. The selling price is to market at about U.S. $ 500,000 ( 437,956 euros; 446 533 Swiss francs) are, in the medium term with higher volumes but at a price comparable to normal cars, 60,000 to 80,000 U.S. dollars ( 43796-58394 €; 53584-71445 Swiss francs) decrease.
Autovolantor
In addition to the M400 Moller works under the title Autovolantor to an aircraft which 599 GTB in principle is based on a Ferrari, a car with wings. In addition to the wings sheets also provide Autovolantor eight ducted propeller for up-and- thrust.
Motorization
Moller poses with the company Freedom Motors under the name Rotapower self-developed low-cost Wankel engines. However, they meet currently not all requirements of the M400 project. The main problems lie in the fuel consumption and the noise level.
Criticism
In the U.S. last votes were increasingly loud, which provide the seriousness of the company in question, among other things, could avoid, a conviction for investment fraud only by a comparison of more than 50,000 U.S. dollars ( 44653.3 36496.4 Swiss Franc Euro ).
For about 40 years is built on the flying objects without ever flew one of them free. In addition, the promised and essential for the targeted purpose of noise and fuel consumption values are of most observers, already theoretically unreachable because they take into account the gravity inadequate. Some commentators therefore believe that the Skycar is a boondoggle and will always remain.