Airborne personalized travel using "Skycar Volantors"

Paul Moller, Moller International

Abstract:
The world's airspace is the greatest under-used natural resource at our disposal to address transportation needs. The Skycar Volantor offers a 3-D solution to 2-D urban traffic congestion. Moller International is building a wingless, ducted-fan skycar powered by efficient, low-emission rotary engines that is cheaper, faster, and cleaner than a Ferrari. Unlike the automobile revolution of this century, the airways of the future will not be made of tar and gravel, but from ones and zeros flowing through global positioning systems, wireless networks, and skycar autopilots to enable pushbutton air transportation.

Biography:
Paul Moller is founder and President of Moller International. In 1972 he founded Supertrapp Industries and was CEO as Supertrapp became the most recognized international name in high-performance engine silencing systems. Supertrapp Industries was sold in 1988.
In 1983 he founded Moller International to develop powered-lift aircraft. Moller International has worked with NASA, NOSC, DARPA, NRL, Harry Diamond Labs, Hughes Aircraft Company, Caltrans and the U.S. Army, Navy and Airforce. These projects included the development of numerous unmanned aerial vehicles and Wankel-based engines. Dr. Moller has received 43 patents including the first U.S. patent on a fundamentally new form of powered-lift aircraft.
Dr. Moller holds a Masters in Engineering and Ph.D. from McGill University. He was a professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UC Davis from 1963 to 1975, where he developed the Aeronautical Engineering Program.