Early Days

In my younger years I remember watching Chrysler's turbine automobile creep down Charlevoix Avenue at the speed of a lame snail. The sound of the engine was impressive -- the performance was not. 

At the same time I was busy re-engineering some of my Dad's vehicle designs into concept prototypes of extremely mobile all-terrain vehicles. One of my designs actually made it to the moon: the wire suspended airless tire.

Successive years of design and development yielded other technology advances -- mercury ion lasers, particle accelerators, fuel cell fabricating, etc.

Finding the offerings at Michigan State University to be a big letdown, I spent a number of years in the 70's studying how people around the world live and operate. After returning to the States, I completed my studies at Michigan Tech with certification in applied electronics. 

Design Excellence

Designing electronic products and technologies followed; my first company was formed, and steady progress has been made in developing all of the technologies necessary to space-age vehicles. 

As microprocessors came on the scene, I learned & merged this skill with vehicle work -- beginning with development of new, space-age instrumentation interfaces. These graphical interfaces were developed into anti-collision guidance systems, first for commercial ships and then aircraft.

Airframe design, avionics, and finally new aircraft engine designs followed.

Work began on a new engine based on disc turbine technology, which included energy systems for them. Along the way toward developing two unique combustion systems for our engine (UCB & pulse detonation), our lab ran piston ICE's on 50/50 alcohol & water -- a first!

From glass cockpit electronics through new engine and propulsion systems -- all aspects of 21st century vehicles have been addressed.

With more emphasis being placed on heading off a fuel crisis, a greater portion of my time is being spent on formulating strategies and working technologies for both electrical power and new, low-cost fuels from free energy sources such as sun, wind, and waste combustibles.

Active projects we are working with today include: