Early flying machines

It's 2022 and people are designing one man aircrafts using drone technology, this is not new under the sun, history is repeating it's self again..the concept isn't new at all, it was tried and tested decades ago.

Here's some information on one of the old flying machines.

The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) was a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control. The platform was developed starting in 1953 under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract to Hiller Aircraft, and flew successfully beginning in 1955.