• Cars

    Flying Saucers Come Home

    By SciIll Staff Posted on 11.17.2008 28 Comments

    It’s designed to seat two, take off and land vertically, fly 10 feet above the ground, and reach 75 miles an hour. It’s about the size of a car, but it’s round instead of boxy. Yup, it’s a flying saucer. Next year, California-based Moller International hopes to introduce the M200G personal recreation craft, the first of what the company expects to be a full line of “volanters”—vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. The design is 300 years in the making.

    11.8.2008 at 07:52am - Comment by jharvat

    I am glad someone finally mentioned the noise levels such a vehicle would produce. Seems to me it would be deafening. Also, I would think that fuel consumption to power one of these things would be ridiculously prohibitive. If we must get off the ground, it's probably going to take some major breakthrough in maglev technology to do it. Either that or some simple anti-gravity device might do the trick ;)



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