I was born in 1978. When I was a kid in the 80s and then a teen in the 90s, everyone was always talking about flying cars and how surely in the year 2000 everyone would have them. It always kind of was treated as this holy grail and main benchmark of futurism. Flying cars and fusion power, which is always 30 to 50 years away, according to the experts and has been so my whole life. What I find the most fascinating about the current advancements in flying technology is that they didn't come from any of those rich weirdos who were trying to build a flying car for the last 50 years, nor from the aircraft or the helicopter or the car industry, but that it all came from remote controlled toys that just got scaled up and more and more advanced. It really came out of the left field. It is like back when mobile phones first got popular and suddenly the world of photography and cameras got totally shaken up and turned on its head not by companies that had been building cameras since generations, but by new mobile phone companies that originally had nothing to do with cameras and photography. Suddenly Nokia and later Apple were the world's biggest seller of cameras, not Kodak or Nikon. It was the same when cars were invented. Back then there were big, successful manufacturers of horse drawn wagons and not one of them got in on the building cars business, as you could have expected. Instead the cars all were built by totally new companies that hadn't existed before. Seems as if those big, emerging, world changing trends in technology always come out of the left field.

Getting heavy "Nausicaa Valley of The Wind" vibes from the first one. Wonder if it was inspired by her glider...

They all are interesting and I'd love to see further development of them. The Blackfly and Jetson One are the two I would feel safe enough to try. Thank you for the upload and welcome back

I really like how very 'Miyazaki' the Opensky looks. Quite beautiful, and clearly a labour of love, as well as engineering skill.

Great video ! The Zeva Aero looks promising. Appreciate the fact that the videos thumbnail correctly reflects the videos content.

1:15 Wow, the Omni Hoverboard looks so dangerous. One wrong move that takes you over a critical angle and you'll make an irrecoverable dive. If the platform would be below the propellers it would be naturally stable.

Those that claim they provide a parachute, I hope that includes an ejector seat! No body could climb out fast enough!

I've always dreamed of flying, so this kind of makes me wish I was younger so I could experience what develops over the next 30 or so years.

The 'Opensky' personal jet looks like it was inspired by 'Nausica'! Which is a good thing. Q: what do you do with engine failure if your aircraft has no wings? A: Fall to the ground like a stone unless you have a parachute. The 'Zev' and 'Blackfly' are the only two with a slim chance at gliding under zero-power conditions.

The Jetson 1 is really awesome, looks safe, and user friendly. Who wouldn't want one?

I only clicked onto this for the Zeva. I've been interested in the "flying flapjack" experimental aircraft since I was a boy over 40 years ago. I'm so stoked that someone has potentially found a way to commercialize this design!

Thank you for the great, comprehensive video! No extraneous mumbo- jumbo. Just a great overview.

I am a pilot, and I have to tell you the idea of unlicensed individuals taking to the skies like this frightens me. We have an a problem with drunk drivers on the ground. I just can't even begin to start to imagine the carnage that's going to happen over a period of time in the industry of all these types taken collectively, it's not a good idea I think it's a bad idea but progress will occur. I personally hope none of them do anything stupid but of course as a fools wish because a lot of fools will do something. And I'll be doing it while are flying and if they killed them selves at all lockdown but they hurt someone else well that's where you start getting heavy handed legislation. And that's going to come.

I'm fairly positive we'll never see ANY of these commercially. Where they are cool to watch from the ground, would you want to be strapped to one of these things going 150 knots at 600 feet and the motors stopped working? If modern aircraft has told us anything, failures happen, no matter how redundant you think your system is. Fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft are able to be landed with relative safety in case of an engine failure. None of these contraptions have that capability and will NEVER be approved by the FAA.

I'd love that jetson one

I bet some of these have been mistaken for UFO'S. It would be pretty freaky looking up and see one of these flying around!

The last prototype on this list was the most exciting and the most aesthetically pleasing. great video!

Beautiful jets. I wish I could fly one over a city or through the Grand Canyon. For those interested in such things these are my 3 favorite aviation art books: - Aviation Art of Lou Drendel by Lou Drendel - Grumman F-14 Tomcat by Dave Parsons - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy by Tim Gibson

Jetson 1 - would a hybrid be possible - small gas engine / alternator and battery? An Air Prius?

Straight to the point. I loved it.