There's a really old iteration of similar functionality that I think has the potential to be quite a bit superior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARrc40imk h

There's a really old iteration of similar functionality that I think has the potential to be quite a bit superior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARrc40imk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARrc40imk After researching it, the main problem with the flying pulpit design was it required quite a bit of pilot skill, and since helicopters solved the same problems in many cases anyway, the device never really got used. Nowadays though, we've got the tech needed to switch to a fly by wire system that relies on computing to maintain a stable flight profile.