Moulton Taylor

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Moulton B. "Molt" Taylor (September 29, 1912 – November 16, 1995) was an aeronautical engineer famed for his work on developing a practical flying car.

Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon and studied engineering at the University of Washington. After graduation, he was accepted into the United States Navy as a pilot, but spent much of World War II working on the Navy's missile program. Shortly after the war, he designed his first flying car, the Aerocar, and founded a business, Aerocar International, in Longview, Washington to develop, manufacture, and market it. To date, it remains the closest that any such design came to actual mass production, but eventually only six were built.

Although Taylor continued to push for the viability of the flying car throughout the rest of his life, he also designed a number of only slightly more conventional designs for the homebuilt aircraft market, including the Aerocar Coot amphibian and the Aerocar Imp family of sportsplane designs.

Shortly before his death, Taylor was inducted into the Experimental Aircraft Association Hall of Fame.