Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
A segment on tonight's "news" showed a four-seater, with remarkable room inside, graced with the leggy models who advertise leather lounges from Franco Cozzo, getting ready to depart from a spacious rooftop heliport, along with 2 or 3 others.
It "lifted off", powered by 2 piddly little 2-metre rotors, and zoomed away. I could barely hear the commentary, I was laughing so hard. But it sure as heck didn't attempt to have any sound effects from the screaming rotors, just graceful violin music.
Yes, it did say that NASA people were involved with the ATC software, but didn't say if they had anything to do with the aircraft.
In 1906 skeptics in the European aviation community had converted the press to an anti-Wright brothers stance. European newspapers, especially those in France, were openly derisive, calling them
bluffeurs (bluffers).