US Military Demonstrates an Experimental Manned Flying Platform (1955)

This 1955 newsreel clip from British Pathé shows a demonstration flight of the Hiller Flying Platform, an experimental manned hover craft then in development by the US Army and Navy. The military ultimately ruled the platform impractical and it never entered service.

Hiller Flying Platform

E.D.W. Lynch
E.D.W. Lynch

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