In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough. By Nicholas Slayton Updated Jan 1, 2026 12:53 PM EST For decades the United ...
Click to open image viewer. In the mid-1950s, Hiller constructed a series of innovative Flying Platforms for an Army-Navy program as a one-man flying vehicle that the pilot could control with minimal ...