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Inventor/Engineer
Doug Malewicki
is an Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineer with a MS from Stanford
University. Doug holds patents on inventions in the
diversified fields of aerospace, medicine, transportation and
toys. Doug is also an avid trail runner, cyclist and backpacker. Doug strongly believes exercise is a very important part of staying healthy in his geezer years. He has been running since 1972 and loving trail running after discovering it 1998. He has cycled the 540 miles from San Francisco to LA down beautiful Pacific Coast Highway 1 seven times since 1982. Doug did 25 years in a row of week long backpack trips every summer in the Sierra’s since 1982. He has trekked up to the summit of Mount Whitney (14,496 feet elevation - highest spot in the contiguous 48 states) 7 times since 1995. Last time was 2019. (Pictures). |
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Doug Malewicki was President/Chief Scientist for AeroVisions Inc., a company he founded in 1974, incorporated in 1980 for developing, promoting and commercializing his numerous inventions. At age 78, he finally dissolved it 43 years later in 2017. |
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____________________________________________________ Robosaurus - the FIRE BREATHING monster robot |
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TRAIL RUNNING |
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Jedi Master Yoda better approve! (He
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On February 15, 2014 at the Winter Trail Run Series 21K, a half marathon with 2,850' of climbs, my streak of 20 FIRST PLACES in a ROW in AGE 70+ came to an end. 72 year old Peter Rowat from San Diego is my new hero. His time was better than my best times for this same race back when I was in my early 60's. I was already 75 at the time, so could still claim no one OLDER than me beat me! Truth be told - at half my races there was NO other 70+ competition. I could have stopped, drank a beer, taken a nap, then "raced" to the finish and still earned 1st in age! I am most proud of running two 26.2 trail Marathons A WEEK APART in 2012 and getting a first in age at both events! Better yet at the Catalina ECO-Marathon I had 9 competitors Getting beat by some one older than me didn't happen until 6.5 years after I turned 70. It was Labor Day September 2015, when my buddy since the 70's 6' 3", 145 pound Chris Laing, who is 5 months older than me and one of the featured healthy over 75 athletes in my FIT AT 75 eBook. Chris beat me at the 50th annual Mount Baldy Race to the Top. Worse, it was my best ever time up to the 10,064' summit of Mount Baldy of 2:29:47. He did it in 2:10:44. Faster by 19 minutes! |
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 June 8 - Shadow of the Giants 50K ultra in Fish Camp, CA. 3,750' of climbs in 98 degree heat! |
 With Shadow 50K Race Director Big Baz Hawley. 1st place in age 70+. Daughter Michelle won 1st woman overall!www.BigBazTrailRaces.com |
 April 6, Irvine Lake Mud Run. I beat #2 in my age group by 31 minutes. 7,000+ crazy runners (Geezer Doug proudly included, of course!) |
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Doug was named the Orange
County Register's
"Sportsman of the Year"
Article
and photos by columnist David Whiting:
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 The California Old Goats crossing the finish line on Day 4. Was our best day of the 6 days. We beat 23 of the 97 teams! |
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Gore-Tex TRANSROCKIES 2012 was Doug's 5th year in a row running the 6 day TransRockies race. Gordy & Dous are already signed up for the 2014 TransRockies! Doug's 6th year. |
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May 28 & 29, 2012 Grand Canyon R2R2H2R A grand adventure!  |
 Looking across at Roaring Springs on the way down from the North Rim at 8,200' elevation. 4 of us did it - Jon Resnick, Bill Hegardt, Peter Duerst & I. |
 YEAH! Back at the South Rim. This round trip run from the South Rim to the North Rim & back totaled 45 miles & involved 10,315' of climbing per the GPS. R2R2R means running Rim to Rim to Rim non-stop. We geezers prefer to run R2R2H2R - the H being our overnight hotel with a shower, beer, dinner & a bed! |
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March 2013: I hit 74 on March 28, 2012. To celebrate my 74th birthday I ran a bit more than 74 miles of my favorite trails in 4 days (74.13 miles according to my Garmin GPS).
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SkyTran - Personal MagLev Transportation |
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Malewicki has been an invited keynote speaker on SkyTran and our new Wind Turbine retrofit business (based on our SkyTran technology and patents) to Dubai (April 2010 with Dr. Greg Smedley CEO/founder of One-Cycle-Control, Inc.) and to Macau, China (July 2011). Details on these and several local presentations in California HERE
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My SkyTran interview videos were posted on March 31, 2010 on BigThink.com! See: http://bigthink.com/dougmalewicki And the link to the Future in Motion series page, which features one of the segment videos: http://bigthink.com/series/27 The interview is mostly about my SkyTran invention, but also talks about the advanced Wind Turbine work we are doing and even the low cost electric first stage boosters for Micro-satellite launches. Some of that was discussed in the IEEE paper that you can read below. |
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 IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
November 2009: My invited Point of View paper "Silicon is About to Change the World -- AGAIN!" was published in the IEEE's PROCEEDINGS magazine. Click HERE to read it. | ||||
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Just as the
automobile replaced the horse in one generation and the Internet has
largely replaced snail mail letters, newspapers, FAXes and libraries in
one generation; power electronics will replace mechanical
transmissions in your generation. This was also the first public unveiling of the full size SkyTran MagLev (Magnetically Levitated) prototype on its short LSM (Linear Synchronous Motor) powered guideway at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA MORE. |
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Check out: www.SkyTran.us |
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SKYTRAN
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The California Commuter - 157 MPG at freeway speeds |
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Gasoline prices are now past $5.00 per gallon! Get ready
for high priced gasoline by building your own 155 MPG
California Commuter street & freeway legal commuter vehicle.
Plans - Click
here.
The
California Commuter PLANS & TECHNICAL BOOKLET |
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THE
CALIFORNIA COMMUTER In the early 1980’s, Doug set two Official Guinness World Records for high mileage efficiency with his lightweight, streamlined, street & freeway legal California Commuter. 157.192 MPG - gasoline record - LA to SF. Just 2.87 gallons to travel 451.3 miles! 156.53 MPG - diesel record - Anaheim, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Just 1.68 gallons of diesel to travel 263.4 miles while climbing 7,993 feet of elevation gains. |
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eCC - THE
ELECTRIC CALIFORNIA COMMUTER The updated Electric California Commuter (eCC) will be a licensed street & freeway legal, all-electric "Green" vehicle. It is is designed to set a world record in electric-mileage efficiency at freeway speeds. We want to prove that the technology to change the world is already here, we just need to change how people THINK about transportation.
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Flying and DARPA Flying Machines |
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FLYINGDoug is a licensed pilot, who worked as a Senior Flight Test Engineer at Cessna’s Military - Twin Division in the late 1960’s. He was involved in FAA certification flight-testing to document take-off, landing, stall, single engine climb and autopilot failure performance. He also did performance analysis for Cessna’s first business jet - the Cessna Citation. Doug was the 10th person ever to fly in the N500CC prototype. He is shown here, 35 years later - in January 2004, enjoying sharing the cockpit of a Cessna Citation Jet 2 at 41,000 feet during a flight between Connecticut and Florida.
In the early 60’s, Doug worked on the Apollo Saturn V - man
to the moon program. As a Senior Structural Loads Analyst he was involved
with structural dynamic response analysis on the
Lunar module/Service
module docking ring structure. The analysis showed that this
connecting ring had to be beefed up to withstand a possible hard-over
thruster engine failure. He also worked on the
Launch Escape Abort
System doing dynamic analysis and software for the pyrotechnic event
that deployed stabilizing canards.
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UMAAV’s (Unmanned Morphing Aerial Attack Vehicles) a conceptual development contract for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency).
Rather than just doing a extensive theoretical aerodynamic and structural
analysis for his innovative designs, Doug's company AeroVisions, Inc. built and flew Radio Control
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EVEL KNIEVEL's X-1 rocket Skycycle
The internationally renowned daredevil and famed LAST GLADIATOR hired Doug Malewicki to design & engineer his canyon jumping rocket. Doug Malewicki was the designer and engineer of Evel Knievel's steam rocket powered SkyCycle X-1 canyon jumping motorcycle. Doug is shown here shaking hands with Evel at the machine's unveiling at the Twin Falls, Idaho Snake River canyon jump site on May 6, 1972. On the left is rocket pioneer, Robert Truax who invented and holds the patents on Steam Rocket engines. Wearing sunglasses is Facundo Campoy, one of Truax's partners. |
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Look, up in the sky, it's the
Kite Cycle!
July 4, 2008 - National Hot Rod Association Article Inside National DRAGSTER by: Phil Burgess  |
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RB 2000
- PERSONAL ROCKET BELT
Rocket belt pilot, Bill Suitor, first flew this improved rocket belt in 1995. Bill flew for Bell back in the 60’s and still holds all the rocket belt speed and distance world records. Click HERE to see a video of Bill Suitor flying the Bell belt in England in 1966. Click HERE to see the HISTORY CHANNELS great 8 minute rocket belt video. Doug was hired as a consultant by the RB2000 Texas principals to design the 90% strength Hydrogen Peroxide monopropellant catalyst pack; do the internal flow analysis; size the supersonic nozzles for optimum thrust performance; and calculate the improved flight durations using non-linear analysis. (Click HERE for a list of the "Rocket Scientist's" articles on Rockets!) |
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NUCLEAR WAR - Doug's 1965 Game Invention |
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GAME
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Doug's ©1965
Nuclear War Game has taken on a life of its own! My 48 year old mildly sane invention is going electronic! This is the first component to be released of my very goofy game that 2 out of 3 times EVERBODY LOSES! It has won all kinds of awards over the years. I came out with it when I was a mere 26 years old! This spinner is just a precursor to the complete electronic Nuclear War Game & can be used now with the existing board game version. Much more fun than the ancient mechanical spinner ever could be! You use the touch screen to swipe the arrow to get it moving. As it spins, it makes Geiger Counter ticking sounds. When it stops – you will hear the results. Hilarious voiceover comments in an over-the-top Russkie accent by actress Claudia Christian, well known for her TV character - Commander Ivanova of the SciFi hit series Babylon 5. [Special thanks to Rick Roszko, Rick Loomis & Steve Johnson] NEW: YouTube video INSTRUCTIONS "How to play the Nuclear War game": www.youtube.com/user/FlyingBuffaloGames?feature=mhee |
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Here
is a detailed summary of the game's history with their edition year that
you might find interesting
The ORIGINAL 1965 Nuclear War games was in
a plain black box (only 1,000 were published). As you can see as
the the game got popular it lasted surprisingly for many, many years.
SECRET cards such as you get 5 Million people from any enemy country
(player) of your choice because they are all seeking aerospace jobs in
your country or being first to land on the moon. (Men Landed on the moon on July 20,
1969). That notion as an influence became really obsolete by
the time Nuclear Escalation (the 5th Edition) was created in 1982.
Updates to the weapons and delivery systems really needed updated new
editions to keep up with the actual continually improving
technologies.
These are 4 of the original 1965 Nuclear
War Games I still own.
All are in great shape
too. The 3rd original 1965 game shown here in its mailing box has
one Franklin D. Roosevelt 6 cent stamp and two Abraham Lincoln 4 cent
stamps. The US Post Office stamped date on the box is dated January
13, 1968!!
Also in 1982,
after realizing that some of the Missiles and SECRET and
TOP SECRET cards of the original game
The
Booster Decks success led to the creation of a new full deck of
cards, but without play mats or a spinner, which was intended to be
mixed in and played with any the previous versions of the game's cards.
This 8th Edition named Weapons of Mass Destruction
was published in 2003.
In 2015 the 10th edition, a special 50th Anniversary game was published - (Note its big picture of the nuclear blast glows in the dark and becomes a skull!!). This was a super cool add-on idea by Rick and artist Steve Crompton! Rick, Steve and I are cartoon characters on the cover. Steve is all the way to the left with the black hat. Rick is holding the giant Propaganda card. Once again, Steve has immortalized me as an evil cartoon character - one of the bad guys on the right side - the guy in Purple holding his electrocution wand that throws out lightning bolts to attack. Steve Crompton's Doug cartoon "modified" a photo from the cover of my Amazon eBook "Fit at 75".
Steve
Crompton asked me for a photo dressed up casual and posing like Hugh
Heffner does with my head resting on my arm - while holding an
original 1965 game. My surprise was how he took it and
made it an awesome 50th Anniversary special. I have long ago
realized that Steve's ideas and style of art is what has made my game
into what it has become over the decades - termed an EVERGREEN GAME.
The one and only oak 50th custom box with a 50th game inside. (Box top above).
A more readable picture of the lettering on my oak box. The silver plastic frame around the spinner was also a laser digitally cut part. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ So now you know that IN REALITY the new NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION version is actually the 11th Edition of the Nuclear War original 1965 game!!! ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Every body loves SUPERGERM! However, hardly anyone realizes it was inspired by a cartoon of the Apollo Command Module (where the 3 astronauts lived on their trips to the moon and back). Their original cartoons were popular when I worked for North American Aviation Space Division in Downey, California, where the Apollo Command Module was built, tested and Astronauts were trained. I was a young aerospace structural dynamics engineer at the time.
Rick Loomis made this card back in 1993 to pass out free at his FBI booth at game conventions.
This is an advertising postcard for the digital Nuclear War SPINNER APP produced many years later in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Edition. It was 100% created by Richard Roszko, a big Nuclear War Game fan for many years. He did it on his own with my approval. He happened to be friends with actress Claudia Christian, who played Captain Ivanova in the long running 1990 Babylon 5 Sci Fi TV series. She did a satirical voice comment for each of a bomb's radioactive fallout effects with her special Russian accent voice. Each comment was specifically scripted for where ever the spinner arrow actually landed (stopped spinning). The spinner even made noises like a real spinning arrow and as it slowed down it sounded very real. Claudia even had a comment when the arrow landed on a dud or some such. If it landed right on a line she also told you to spin again - all with her special Russian accent. I am sure Rick scripted it all for her. Rick was super fan! As you can guess the Digital Spinner APP was even more fun than the real mechanical arrow spinner. Unfortunately, that fun APP hasn't been available for several years. Sorry.
_________________________________________________________________ Rick Loomis the owner of Flying Buffalo Inc that I licensed the copyrights to back in the early 1970's passed away almost 5 years ago at age 71 on August 23, 2019, two days before his 72nd Birthday. I relicensed the game to what I felt was by far the best game corporation who could keep this crazy game's sales going strong. Webbed Sphere Inc (WSI) out of Kentucky owns over a dozen game companies and even Puzzle creating companies. I am proud of the evergreen Nuclear War games and YES Active and still alive at 85!! I reached 1,000 GPS miles for this year on June 7 on my way to 2,024 miles for the year 2024. Have been doing the year in miles+ since 2020.
Check out my Facebook pictures (simply under Douglas Malewicki) to see
how active. Below are all my older invention items. My website is in dire need of updating. I haven't bothered doing anything with it since 2019. :-( Maybe I will take time to do more of that in the next few weeks. NOTE: You might find some of my other inventions quite interesting.
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The LOST WORLD series of fantasy combat books is produced
by Flying
Buffalo, Inc., the same company that manufactures Nuclear War &
expansion games! LOST WORLDS - Doug's daughter, Michelle Barton is a featured Lost Worlds Medieval super heroine combat character named Mischa Redblur - Ultra Sorceress (Pictures & story) Michelle has taken up trail running like her dad & has evolved into a top ranked ultra distance speedster. Over the years Michelle set numerous female course records for 50K and 50 mile race distances - including six as overall winner where she "chicked" all the men! She won first female & fourth overall at the Javelina Jundred 100 mile trail race in Arizona in a 19:42 time. She was 4 hours ahead of the second place female! Pictures HERE. She also earned the coveted Badwater buckle for finishing that 135 mile race held in Death Valley in July when the day time temperatures run 120 degrees and above in under 48 hours. |
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Click HERE to see MORE pictures of Doug Malewicki's other inventions and read his free TIPS for new inventors. |
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Doug's favorite quotes (besides Yoda!) |
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Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and
his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education
and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." - Zen Buddhist Text |
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"If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!" |
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"What would MacGyver do?" |
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"Life is what you make it; always has been; always will be." -- Grandma Moses |
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"Dear Optimist and Pessimist, While you guys were busy arguing about the glass of beer being half full or half empty, I drank it! Sincerely, your pal the Opportunist Engineer." |
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" I have a plan.... To live forever.... So far it's workin!" - - Steven Wright |
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Site last updated on August 18, 2024
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Douglas J. Malewicki, 14962 Merced Circle, Irvine, CA 92604
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