Shock of the old: 11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

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Shock of the old: 11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders

From Leonardo da Vinci to the engineers of Bell Aerosystems, some of our finest minds have devoted themselves to finding a better form of travel. Still, anyone can have an off day …There’s an innocent optimism to transport visionaries. They really thought they could change the world! They absolutely couldn’t! But all respect to them for trying: someone got lucky with the wheel once, didn’t they?Being a transport visionary must have been more int…