There have been “sky-ways” for many years that pilots have used to navigate long distances via radio signals. Now that GPS allows a very direct root without fear of loosing your guidance these sky-ways do not have the same necessity.

It’s all speculation, but I’d imagine it would work the same way with flying cars. Even with GPS, we don’t fly “wherever we want”.

Imagine all of the clunkers you see driving around right now, broke down on the side of the road, now imagine the same thing except these clunkers can fly, sometimes….. would you want to be around when the clunker that joe dirt is holding together with duct tape and bailing wire decides to fall apart?

The Skycar

Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen.

You’ve always known it was just a matter of time before the world demanded some kind of flying machine which would replace the automobile. Of course, this machine would have to be capable of VTOL, be easy to maintain, cost effective and reliable. Well, we at Moller International believe we have come up with the solution. That solution is the volantor named M400 Skycar.

Let’s compare the M400 Skycar with what’s available now, the automobile. Take the most technologically advanced automobile, the Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati, Lamborgini, or the more affordable Acura, Accord, or the like. It seems like all of the manufacturers of these cars are touting the new and greatly improved “aerodynamics” of their cars. Those in the aerospace industry have been dealing with aerodynamics from the start. In the auto industry they boast of aerodynamics, performance tuned wide track suspensions, electronic ignition and fuel injection systems, computer controllers, and the list goes on. What good does all this “advanced engineering” do for you when the speed limit is around 60 MPH and you are stuck on crowded freeways anyway?

Can any automobile give you this scenario? From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar can cruise comfortably at 275 MPH (maximum speed of 375 MPH) and achieve up to 20 miles per gallon on clean burning, ethanol fuel. No traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time. Three dimensional mobility in place of two dimensional immobility.

No matter how you look at it the automobile is only an interim step on our evolutionary path to independence from gravity. That’s all it will ever be.

Moller International’s M400 Skycar volantor is the next step.

Click on Skycar image to view flight test videos.

Using GPS, probably. There will be levels of flight for transect, local, etc. with drop off points in the GPS mapping matrix and clear “lanes” in the sky.