In article
<john-014F79.09532901092007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"John A. Weeks III" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <642v8eah.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Bob Fry <bobfry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "JW" == John A Weeks, <John> writes:
> >
> > JW> How do you mean "at it again"? Moller has been in business
> > JW> for many years. They have had several highly successful
> > JW> products, and they continue to develop their prototypes for
> > JW> flying vehicles.
> >
> > If a business can consist of promoting a completely impractical
> > machine, and products being successfully scammed grants and
> > investments, then I agree with you.
>
> So, do you consider the Wright Brothers and Bell Helicopters
> to be scams, also? One used a bicycle shop to fund a 20 year
> long quest for powered flight, while the other spent 15 years
> and 1.5-billion developing the tilt-rotor aircraft. How is
> that any different from Moller manufacturing products like
> mufflers and motors, and doing contract R&D, to fund his
> dream of the flying car? In your world, would you have
> put someone like Dean Kaman in prison for using profits from
> his dialysis machine to fund the design of the Segway human
> trans****ter? I guess you would have been leading the effort
> to have Galileo blinded for looking into the heavens with
> his telescope.
>
> -john-
There is a HUGE difference between the Wrights, Sikorsky and BEll from
Moller.
The former used a methodical engineering and scientific approach to
developing their machines BEFORE they announced them, whereas Moller,
for at least 30 years, has announced his machines before they flew
successfully.
He does not hold an aeronautical engineering degree, is not a pilot and
apparently has no clue as to how aircraft fly or operate. His machine is
a Rube Goldberg contraption with 8 engines, all of which must be
operating in perfect tune and "electronically synchronized".
He has never had even one successful test flight without a tether or a
crane keeping the thing in the air.
How many ways can you spell "scam" or pronounce "s**** oil"?
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