Paul Moller

Paul S. Moller (b. 1937 in Canada) is an engineer who has spent the past forty years developing an aircraft that is able to take off and land vertically (like a helicopter) and can fly like a fixed-wing aircraft while in the air. His invention, the Skycar, is a personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle.

The engine technology currently in use for the Skycar has also been adapted as a UAV platform called the aerobot. The rotapower engine itself has been spun off to a separate Moller company, Freedom Motors. In 1972, Dr. Moller founded Supertrapp Industries to market his invention of an engine silencing system. Moller sold Supertrapp in 1988 in order to fund development of his Skycar and its rotapower engine.

Paul Moller is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Davis, California. Paul Moller was featured in Popular Science's January 2005 issue.[1]

External link

*Moller International website
*Supertrapp Industries
*Freedom Motors