Nikola Tesla - Apparatus for Aerial Transportation

Tesla’s final patents are among his most mysterious. No record is known of anyone making any attempt to build this flying machine. It combines many elements of conventional aviation with an ornithopter concept — and apparently could change its form depending on whether it was on the ground, taking off, or in flight. Would it work? We simply don’t know. In 1928 Tesla patented his idea of for a flying machine (US1,655,114 - Apparatus for Aerial Transportation