Company Now Selling Real Flying Saucers

[[JiF]Rhykin]

Right now, only $90,000 stands between you and ownership of your own flying saucer. Except it won't take you to Venus—it looks like flying saucer but it's really a car-sized hovercraft intended to fly no higher than 10 feet.

Called the M200G from Moller International of Davis, CA, the craft is supported by the downdraft of eight small but powerful rotary engines.

Moller spokesman Bruce Calkins explained that the craft can carry a payload of 250 pounds and is stabilized by a computer system. The driver uses a joystick for steering and sets the desired altitude (detected with proximity radar) with a lever.

The 10-foot maximum altitude is constrained by the system's computer—it could fly much higher but doing so would require a pilot's license, Calkins explained.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 ... aucer.html

We should make a JiF Flying Saucer fund and purchase one. Then we can bring it to all the JiF LAN Parties and show it off

[[JiF][AARP]Grimp]

I think I am too close the the weight limit

Maybe I can hover at only 5 feet

[[JiF]rIot]

I can see it now...10 years later:

[[JiF]Timmay!]

Wow! Moller finally shipped something!! If nothing else, he gets serious points for persistance..