The future as depicted in the 50’s was always appealing to me. A sort of naive, squeaky-clean utopia where people wouldn’t have to lift a finger for anything. No thought or care for the realities of population pressure, infrastructure and logistics. They knew what they wanted, just not how complex it would be to accomplish it. When air travel became ubiquitous at the same time that automobiles became affordable for the common man, the natural prediction was flying cars within a decade.

Everyone would simply taxi their cars to the neighborhood runway and take off. What wishful thinking.

The realities of the flying car have been the challenge of one man for the last 25 years. Paul Moller has been designing aircraft since he was 11 years old. In the last 15 years he has been pushing legislation that would expand the air traffic control system to allow for small, personal aircraft to managed remotely across the entire US. His latest project, the M400 Skycar is still just a prototype, but his company is going into production on the M200X.

All I can say is…my birthday is coming up!