Flying Cars: A Case for Exploration and Racing Adventures with Dezső Molnár

Vehicles enable explorers to extend human endurance; balloons through the air, kayaks across lakes, dogsleds on snow, and rockets to the moon; drawing inspiration from adaptive creatures that can travel in multiple mediums. A duck can walk, swim, fly, and retract its landing gear.
Dezső Molnár is developing a flying car that can travel after being charged, fueled, or, like an elegant sailboat, harvesting the sun and wind to provide extended voyages.

One  of his objectives this season is to test his concept car with solar panels mounted to power an expedition through the Mojave Desert, and illustrate a zero fuel way to travel on roads and ultimately through the air with the same vehicle.

Bicycles, skateboards and back packs have all evolved through racing and exploration; flying car pioneers must embrace that chapter today to refine them for the future. By positioning among adventurers, explorers and racers, we can avoid the failures of flying car designers that strove for serial production of commuter solutions to create the next explorer’s sailboat as one for the roads and the air.

Dezső Molnár invented and built the “Gyrocycle” – a flying motorcycle represented at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.

He was crew chief for Craig Breedlove’s “Spirit of America” land speed racing team’s attempt to break the sound barrier, and on the flight test crew for 50+ manned launches at Rocket Racing League; building liquid fueled rocket-powered planes. Dezső was a judge for the original X Prize which prompted development of the tech applied today by Virgin Galactic. At Truax Engineering, Dezso helped create the X-3, the first private rocket ship intended for manned flight.

Dezső is a licensed airplane and gyroplane pilot, flight engineer, and mechanic. He flew transport jets in the US Air Force, holds a BS degree in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and AS Degrees in Flight Engineering and Metals Technology.  He’s an inventor at WET Design in Los Angeles which created Bellagio Fountain, and has been awarded patents for efforts there and externally. 

Dezső has presented on aviation and flying cars world-wide, to include Autodesk University, Harvard Business School – Shanghai, Technology Istanbul, and is forming the “Flying Car Racing League”, and refining the “Streetwing” electric flying race car, and the Surfcycle electric motorcycle.