Paul Moller’s 50-year dream to build a flying car won’t die
The Canadian engineer popularized vertical takeoff and landing technology, but the flying car dreamer is a skeptic about today’s would-be air taxi startups.
Paul Moller stands in the back corner of a large garage in Davis, California, clean-shaven and wearing a large pair of golden aviator glasses. The 52-year-old engineer is a professor down the road at the University of California, Davis, but he’s not the type to sit back with a book and highlighter. In his white polo shirt and glossy brown bomber jacket, he looks ready to tinker with the shiny invention behind him at knee-level at a moment’s notice.