After building a flying jet bike and hoverboard, Franky Zapata has created a futuristic drone. But he's really selling an ancient fantasy like the one pictured above. "It's being able to fly all by yourself," says the French serial inventor, whose previous creations include the Flyboard, the world's smallest jet-engine aircraft, and Zapata's JetRacer. "Flying is something that people have dreamed of for centuries, since they were living in caves. And this machine is almost the only one in the world that lets them do it."

The "machine" is Zapata's new AirScooter, a single-seat rotocopter with hybrid AV fuel-electric propulsion and a computer-assisted fly-by-wire system that manages the aircraft's heading, speed and altitude 100 times per second, which makes it "easier to fly than driving a car or an ATV," he says.

This one-person eVTOL will be one of the first available for rental.

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