Dream Machine

A car that makes highways obsolete may be more than pie-in-the-sky.

by Dan McCosh

WHEN THE BUBBLE canopy is lowered, enveloping you in the M400 Skycar’s cockpit, you become lost in its possibilities. The single stick that controls pitch, yaw, and direction falls to hand. Eight ignition switches and starter buttons are at the ready. The hood slopes away, braced by two rounded ducts housing four of the eight rotary engines that lift you with 720 horsepower, then launch you into the sky at more than a mile a minute. The M400 is a flying car that promises to let you take off from your backyard—assuming you have a pretty big backyard—and fly to your destination at 350 mph, ignoring, if not gazing condescendingly upon, land-bound commuters stuck in traf›ic below. The brainchild of 63-year-old Paul Moller, the M400 lifts off on the thrust…

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Popular Science Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2019

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