Prior to opening day July 20, 2009 of The Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight Fund Raising Web Site, the Ikeler4000 aircraft or Flying Car was regarded as secret, due to patent protection and military unfolding. After seven years of being in its patented design and structural planning, an Ikeler4000 blogspot also went live to assist with raising revenue to complete the Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight.

The Ikeler4000 aircraft is the invention of Dr.Doug Ikeler, president and founder of Ikeler Aerospace. Dr Ikeler is also a pilot, veterinarian of 22 years and an author. Dr. Ikeler's Flying Car vision came after realising a need for a functional aircraft that would allow people to pilot themselves to any destination in the world. Dr. Ikeler will be piloting the flying car's first flight Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight that is targeted for summer 2010 and is set to break seven world records.

For the purpose of protecting research and development, the leading elements are not made public for the technology and construct of the Ikeler4000 aircraft. The elements given at the Ikeler4000 website are: the aircraft is twenty feet long and six feet wide, seats four people and navigates at two hundred miles per hour. With a price tag of four hundred thousand dollars per vehicle, an Ikeler4000 will carry twelve hundred pounds of payload and have the capability of reconfiguring from air mode to ground mode.

Ikeler4000 is two-thirds of the way to completion and is in prototyping phase in Denver Colorado. Within the next year and as the final developments unfold, the Ikeler Aerospace website will sell adspace to produce revenue in order to complete the vehicle. The website will also help pay for the Round The World Record Setting Flight.

Once Ikeler4000 is complete, Dr. Ikeler will fly the aircraft around both hemispheres to demonstrate the comfort and ease of this new technology and also show the world a new way of futuristic travel. The RTW mission will cover more then twenty-five thousand miles of the globe. Ikeler4000 will be taken to major cities around the world to offer promotional opportunities as well as gain international spotlight.

Selling adspace on the Ikeler Aerospace website serves both the Round The World Record Setting Flight Mission and the sponsors that choose to be a part of the history making event. For early advertisers, adspaces get upfront placements on the vehicle and the website. Once the first Ikeler4000 RTW mission is complete, the aircraft along with the sponsor's ads become acquisition to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for aviation history.

To participate in the exciting Ikeler4000 RTW First Flight Mission and to get the latest updates on Ikeler4000, visit the Ikeler4000 Fund Raising Blog

"This aircraft is the culmination of a century of mankind's dreams. Ever since we have been able to fly and drive we have longed for a vehicle that does both. We live in the fortunate era of ultra-strong and lightweight materials as well as advanced communications devices that allow us to connect with people we would otherwise never know. It is this convergence of technology and human capability that has allowed a lone inventor to once again bring the next great advancement to the lives of us all."

Dr. Douglas Ikeler