The flight instructions went something like this: "It's easy. It practically flies itself. I'll tell you what to do as we go along." In the summer of 1959, Moulton Taylor, with a little time on his ...

In 1949, a fellow named Molt Taylor, working in Longview, Wash., built a flying car. The vehicle, which he dubbed the Aerocar, never caught on: It proved difficult to operate in bad weather and, ...