Flying machines have a strange effect on the human imagination.  Aside from cell phones and the dashboards of 1970s American motorcars, there are very few other technologies that have leant themselves to such wild flights of fancy (pardon the pun).  There have been plans for big aeroplanes and little ones; planes with one wing, two, three, or a dozen; planes that looked like corkscrews; whirligigs; bizarre matings of airliners and dirigibles, flying vacuum cleaners, and Venetian blinds.  You name it, and it's flown off the drawing boards–and probably straight into the ground.

Some even make the "sky toboggan" look tame.  And that's saying something.  I'm not sure what it's purpose is, though I suspect that scaring the living daylights out of anyone fool enough to get in it was probably high on the list.  Five minutes in this baby and both fear of flying and acrophobia will set in for life.

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