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There was some crazy man/scammer building a manned flying thing with six snowmobile engines powering six rotors. I remember this because I was working for Ray Ozzie at the time and he was telling people in the office about it because he had invested in it.


Moller?


Yeah! That's the guy! HOly moley moller.com still exists. EDIT: Wow, this has been going on since the '70s: http://www.downside.com/scams/moller/

The name "Discojet" is way more badass name than "Skycar." Just another sign of lowered expectations.


Yeah, the Moller Skycar has been an impressively long-running scam. It felt like he got his own article in Popular Mechanics on an annual basis.

I wonder how much damage he does to the nascent industry if personal flying vehicles by sucking all the oxygen out of the room.




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