Some people get a bit nuts when bitten by the "personal flight" bug, even to this day; people with no great knowledge of aerodynamics or mechanical engineering

Some people get a bit nuts when bitten by the "personal flight" bug, even to this day; people with no great knowledge of aerodynamics or mechanical engineering are always hopping in some homebuilt ultralight and killing themselves. People lose their rationality, chasing a dream. Franz Reichelt warrants a mention at this juncture. In 1912 he was so invested in the success of his parachute invention that he refused the pleas of his friends to test it with a dummy and simply jumped off the Eiffel tower, to his death. Rather shockingly, Wikipedia has video footage of this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt