Above, practically the first type of airplane to fly in the UK, circa 1904 from a hillside in the South London suburbs by the fantastically named Horatio Frederick Phillips.
Wind forward over a century and material progress has allowed for the ALEF flying car, Horatio's dream come true. Technical details are scant, but the Alef would not fly were it not pitched at rather less than ninety degrees to the horizon, as it appears in the company's animation.
This would turn the many surfaces making up the mesh of the car into airfoils, thus providing the lift that Horatio long hoped would eventually prove to be practical.
It appears the mesh is planar, though if its surfaces formed airfoil profiles then this imaginative concept might be further optimised for flight... and they can't patent that now, can they?
It still however stumbles against whether or not we really want our cars to fly at all ~ the evolution of the automobile having been one of people wanting four wheels, four seats, a big boot and even bigger interior.
And for cars, electrification means bigger and heavier than ever, so that flying versions like the ALEF are more likely to be like the Harley you wheel out on sunnier days (unless and until anti-gravity advances in ways that aliens appear to have mastered).
What this and the previous post shows, however, is that eVTOL is not wholly dissimilar from internet porn in that both are accomplished at selling the dream.
