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Vertical Take-Off & Landing" Aircraft


"VERTICAL TAKE-OFF & LANDING" designs included here are essentially aircraft and hovercraft about the size of an automobile. With the exception of the Avrocar, these vehicles have a width of eight and one-half feet or less, which is the maximum allowable road width for an automobile. Most are not designs of true flying cars. This is so because when used on land, most of them anticipate the use of thrusters rather than motorized wheels. They are included here, partly in deference to the "Moller Skycar", which after some 30 years of development and promotion, is probably the world's most famous "flying car", and also for the potential they offer in the future development of a truly successful dual-purpose vehicle.

Design NameDesigner/DeveloperDate/Era
Airbike Allied Aerotechnics Inc. Current
Aircar UK Gary Payne Current
Avrocar Avro Canada 1950's
CarterCopter Carter Aviation Technologies Current
Chrysler VZ-6CH Chrysler Corp. 1957
Citihawk Rafi Yoeli (Urban Aero) Current
Dragonfly Trek Aerospace Current
FlyRider Stefan Hager Current
Gizio "Cell Craft" Gino d'Ignazio Current
Hiller Stanley Hiller 1960's
Hovercopter Charles Medlock Current
The Humming AeroCopter Inc. Current
Hummingbird Aero-Design & Dev. 1990's
Kestrel Kestrel Aerospace Current
Moller Paul Moller Current
Mundus Group Mundus Group Current
Navtol H.4X North American VTOL Current
PAM 100 B Performance Aviation Mfg. Current
Piasecki The Piasecki Company 1960's
Piranha Nick D'Acquisto Current
RAI Roadable Aircraft Inc. 2001
Rocatomic General Motors 1947
Simcopter David Dobbins 1957
SkyRider X2R MACRO Industries Inc. Current
Skywalker Mirror Image Aerospace Current
Solotrek Trek Aerospace 2003
Springtail Trek Aerospace Current
X-Hawk Urban Aerospace Current


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