Initial flight tests of the one and two man WASP (Williams Aerial Systems Platform), a turbine powered flying platform developed by William Research Corporation of Walled Lake, Michigan. Powered by the world's smallest fanjet engine, the WASP is designed to take off vertically, accelerate rapidly, move forward, backward, sideways, hover, rotate and enable one or two men to fly for 30 minutes at speeds of 60 miles per hour. Flown here on a safely tether line used during early trails tests - by test pilot Robert Courter (left photo) and with passenger Jack Benson (right), the WASP was built and demonstrated under a U.S. Marine Corps research and development program STAMP (Small Tactical Aerial Mobility Platform).

MINI AND MAX - The world's smallest fanjet engine, developed by Williams Resaerch Corporation of Walled Lake, Michigan, and the world's largest commercial fanjet, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft JT9D, give pretty Suzy Busch a choice of air travel as she sits on the engine inlet of a Boeing 747 jete transport. In an individual flight system the mini-jet can lift her alone in flight a la Buck Rogers; the gaint airliner, with it's four huge turbines, could carry her 350 to 490 passagers.