In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.
After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...
Oh boy… another eVTOL just landed on my desk. Back in the day, if you wanted to fly, you needed a runway, a lot of fuel, and commitment to going absolutely deaf ...