That looks pretty neat, but I think, too, it's beginning to look primitive. What was accomplished in aviation over the past hundred years has been utterly remarkable: putting men on the moon, machines on Mars, and so on. I think the vision for this new century we're in will wrap around very personal flight, and Jeb Corliss has already begun the vision. He's the fellow in the flying squirrel suit who's recently been in the news. He can already soar in the suit, 3 feet forward per 1 foot descent. And he's now working to land in it. I'm betting he accomplishes that, and then the next will be to take off, doing away with the airplane that now lifts him into the heavens whereupon he jumps out. With what is available today in computer modeling, you no longer have to throw every design "over the wall." Much can be worked out digitally and safely. I can imagine some of the younger members of this board stepping out their doors some morning, take a couple of steps, and in to the air they go, where they find a thermal or wave, or maybe they soar along a ridge, and head to work or maybe they're just out for a pleasant view of the terrain below. Won't it be something!
