The Bin in Air Travel, Wipe your eyes and see.

This is a story about an invention like so many. It costs these projects millions and sometimes billions of Geld to design,build, test, advancement,materials, more design and wind tests on the list goes on. That is before we get to see in our main public eyes the finished product or products of development. Displayed for us all the people the press the guru and so on. Well thats certainly back in the 1980's alot of what was released to the public worked and had to work. After all they had alot of vision then right?. So I am going to introduce you to a personal transport machine that began it's time wayback in the year... 1951. The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (US military designation, earlier Army designation: HO-1) was a unique direct lift rotor aircraft, using a counter-rotating ducted fan inside a platform that the single pilot stood upon for lift, and controlled by the pilot shifting his body weight around to tilt the platform. The platform was developed starting in 1951 under an Office of Naval Research R&D contract to Hiller Aircraft Corporation, and flew successfully starting in 1955. For around 30years there was no sight nor sound of this transport machine. Untill the flared jeans and high collors arrived, another company who was most likely working on this idea and developing it for application in the field. What field I hear you cry?. Ofcourse the Military cannot have people flying around on platforms, would certainly cause a stir in the insurance companies and the A&E departments would be overcrowed with daily accidents by individuals. Most likely the insurance companies who would have had to create a civillian insurance for a fully fuctional aerial flying machine. Not a plane not a helicoptor not a jet-pack. More like a flying Volkswaggen Bus, remember them the peoples machine, only miniturised for single person flight. And great at altitude of five thousand feet.
The Williams X-Jet, created by Williams International, was a small, light-weight Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) system powered by a modified Williams F107 turbofan aircraft engine. This vehicle was nicknamed "The Flying Pulpit". It was designed to be operated by and carry one person and controlled by leaning in the direction of desired travel and adjusting the power. It could move in any direction, accelerate rapidly, hover, and rotate on its axis, staying aloft for up to 45 minutes and traveling at speeds up to 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). It was evaluated by the U.S. Army in the 1980s, and was deemed inferior to the capabilities of helicopters and small unmanned aircraft.

Other VTOL systems developed by Williams International included a jet-powered flying belt developed in 1969, which was powered by a Williams WR19 turbofan, and the WASP (Williams Aerial Systems Platform) developed in the 1970s, which was powered by the more powerful WR19-9 turbofan engines. Yes you see the year or decade noted 1970's and on from the 1950's this was being developed and developed. In the 1980's it made a few flights for the cameras and the media who grabbed its attention. What now I hear you call !. Yet again its left to carry the dust made to looklike a dustbin and you would rather not give it a second look.

Well Look Out.......... Here comes the Hexa.....from the wisard of OZ.
One of the three original proof-of-concept prototypes of the Williams X-Jet, are displayed at the Seattle Museum of Flight. Any mention of its capabilities technical dimensions and price tag direct from the company, is simply sadly to say met with. Im sorry but this model has not flown for 20years and was only a prototype. They cannot be purchased and we don;t have any technical details on the X-jet. Im sorry, a second time, we cannot help you. Yeah right !. Do these multi nationals really think that the general public are that dumb. Watching the U-tube video one can certainly see that indeed it's stability speed flight control for the 1980's was certainly advanced and would have had the military interest for the battlefield and beyond. But since the 1980's what have we seen of personal single concept flight. Well for one das Germans have come up with a waterpowered jet-pack. But why not this X-jet for me or you or all of us; for individuals. Because it has so many applications that would have so many people using it, for precisely the same reasons the military are using it for. So now you see that technology does evolve over time. And the timeline of trapdoor politics by multinationals is coming to a rearend close. The sound reverbs and the echos of a past come back to life in our minds. Close in on what they are saying and not what the real truth is going on out there. Imagine like this.... your walking down a lonely forest road. And suddenly a lightrises from above the tree tops...... You are back Ok.... How much time did you loose. Todays mufflers are nearly silent a huming. Back in the 1980's they would have been relitively good also. Lights would have been fitted to these aerial platforms, for night time reconassance. LED's are bright and think about so many of the storys of lights over forests. There you go an answer is always equal to the facts of what are placed before your eyes...when aware of the physical you are aware of the technical.