AVE Mizar (1971) > Why start from scratch when you can just take a mediocre product from Ford's model range and clip some wings to it? And so the Advanced Vehicle Engineers (AVE) Mizar was born; a Ford Pinto with the key parts of a Cessna Skymaster attached. The car did fly – for a while. But then the key people behind the project were all killed when their Mizar fell from the sky, and that was that.
Moller Sky Car M400 Paul Moller (born 1936) has been trying for more than half a century to come up with a viable flying car. The Sky Car M400 is his latest confection although it's been doing the rounds since the mid-1990s. Not just an aircraft, the M400 is a VTOL, or Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft, so it doesn't need a runway.
