Douglas Malewicki

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Douglas (or Doug) Malewicki is an American aerospace engineer and inventor. Many of his inventions concern flying vehicles, but the range is quite diverse. ^{[1] [2]} Some examples:

Contents 1 Green vehicles 2 Un-green vehicles 3 Other 4 References

[edit] Green vehicles

• "My most important invention", SkyTran, a proposed "People Internet" system of light, streamlined vehicles routed automatically at 100 miles per hour on magnetic levitation tracks held 20-30 feet in the air by standard utility poles. This Personal Rapid Transit system is calculated to have over 200 miles-per-gallon equivalent fuel economy and could be powered by renewable energy sources such as solar panels above the tracks, making it sustainable transport.
• The 157 and 156-miles-per-gallon "California Commuter" cars that hold the Guiness fuel economy records for street-legal vehicles driven at freeway speeds -- an example of green vehicles.
• Highly-aerodynamic Human-powered vehicles such as Recumbent bicycles. ^[3]

[edit] Un-green vehicles

• Robosaurus, a 40-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex-inspired "entertainment robot" that bites cars and airplanes in half at car shows.
• The X-1 Skycycle rocket-powered motorcycle that daredevil Evel Knievel used in his unsuccessful attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon
• Improved versions of the RB2000 Rocket Belt
• The "Droid of Death" wing-morphing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed and tested under contract from DARPA

[edit] Other

• The card games Nuclear War and "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

An aeronautical engineer by training, ^{[4] [5]}, Malewicki spent much of his career working for American aeronautics and space companies: the Apollo program moon landing vehicles, the Stealth bomber, and Cessna aircraft including their first private jet airplane. He was a model rocket enthusiast, becoming famous early in his career for the Malewicki Equations that predicted the altitude and coast time of a model rocket flight.

[edit] References

• www.canosoarus.com — Douglas Malewicki's invention Web site