NASA designs one-person hovercraft: "NASA Wednesday unveiled its design for a one-person aircraft that would take off vertically, hover, and then cruise horizontally, U.S. officials said.
The nearly silent 12-foot-tall Puffin would stand on end like a space ship, lift off vertically and then cruise horizontally with the pilot lying prone as if in a glider, NASA said in a release.
The twin-engine Puffin was designed by Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center"
