Mad Max Lives, and He’s Building a Flying Car

Dezso Molnar’s quest to rise above it all.

A Modern-Day da Vinci Is Building a Flying Car

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Dezso Molnar spends a couple of days a week working at a company that makes huge water installations such as the fountain at the Bellagio hotel. The rest of his time goes toward building a flying car in an airport hangar-cum-workshop in a Los Angeles suburb.

The notion that Molnar might produce a flying car isn't absurd. Over the past three decades, he’s built products ranging from new types of DJ turntables to rockets and rocket-powered cars. He’s a gearhead renaissance man, and these days he wants to build a way to rise above the congested masses.