# The Skycar is airborne **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965 "2002-12-15T22:49:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/1 "2002-12-15T22:49:33Z")
It looks like the Jetsons are right around the corner.😃 [http://www.moller.com/news/](http://www.moller.com/news/) ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/2 "2002-12-15T23:04:23Z")
The science fair project that would not die. How long has this guy been working on this thing? I can remember seeing it on the cover of Popular Science 15 years ago, and it was “just about to enter production” ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/3 "2002-12-15T23:05:39Z")
Oh BS! It ain’t a flying car until it has no major moving parts! Don’t give me any of the “propeller” crap. That is not what anyone born in the last sixty years imagined. I want _Back to the Future_\* DeLorean hovering on overturned tires. Until then, don’t even try to fool yourself or others; it ain’t a flying car, it is an ugly airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/4 "2002-12-15T23:07:11Z")
Cool! It can’t be the Jetsons though, because the Skycar probably doesn’t make the proper _b-b-b-rreeeee_ noise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/5 "2002-12-15T23:25:54Z")
I don’t know how serious they are but [these guys](http://www.hovertech.com/) have been around for years. I don’t have too much confidence that they will ever succeed, but at least they have the right idea of what a “flying car” is and should be. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/6 "2002-12-15T23:29:49Z")
I’m pretty impressed that Moller’s making progress. I’ve been reading about his Skycar for maybe twenty years (how it’s always “nearly ready for production”). It’s still a really, really long way from actually being available to the public, however. I still have my doubts it’ll ever be available for purchase. Eric ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/7 "2002-12-15T23:57:10Z")
And I thought that it was an improvement on the original “Sky Car,” the W.P. Kindree version. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/8 "2002-12-16T04:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*I don’t know how serious they are but [these guys](http://www.hovertech.com/) have been around for years. I don’t have too much confidence that they will ever succeed, but at least they have the right idea of what a “flying car” is and should be. \*\* Among other things, Hovertech claims to be able to produce a magnetic monopole. This is slightly less credible than a claim of cold fusion. That combined with the fact that their magnetcraft are designed around the same principle that Marvel Comics uses to explain Magneto’s flight make me leary. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/9 "2002-12-16T04:26:06Z")
Yes, you are right. The point is that they are less delusional then the guy thinking that he can successfully pass off that mechanical thing as an acceptable flying car. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/10 "2002-12-16T04:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*Yes, you are right. The point is that they are less delusional then the guy thinking that he can successfully pass off that mechanical thing as an acceptable flying car. \*\* I would think that you’d be more interested in attempts to build ornithopters capable of carry human passengers. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-skycar-is-airborne/142965/11 "2002-12-16T07:13:15Z")
[five year old whine]But it’s not supposed to have moving parts!!![/fyow]