Re: will aircars destroy the auto industry?

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 08:42:39 MDT


> Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > the Moller aircar makes so much noise as to be illegal with 1000 meters
> > of anything, and secondly it would need to devour fuel at such a prodigious
> > rate as to make it too expensive to operate for any practical purpose.
> >These are speculations only, based on my back of the envelope calcs.
> > If these are wrong, however, I definitely want an aircar. {8^D spike
>
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote:supposedly it gets something like 20 mpg. It is a ducted
> fan system,
> using rotary wankel type engines, so its probably less noisy than jets
> or helicopters would be

I realize this is the claim, but I cannot convince myself that it is true,
even tho I desperately want to, Mike. More later, I wanna sharpen
my calcs. spike



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