Watch a video of a wild looking one-man helicopter called the HZ-1 Aerocycle (1950s)

Yet it took BBS all of three comments to diagnose this as a remarkably terrible idea.

ETA: What’s also shocking is that they didn’t even bother to outfit the prototype with any safety gear whatsoever. It doesn’t even look like the pilot is strapped in and there’s definitely not a safer cage guarding him from the rotors.

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