Rhinoceros

This vehicle was designed in the late 1996, thinking about hybrid aircraft propelled by four electric ducted fans, and powered by a special APU unit. The aircraft could take off and land vertically like a conventional helicopter, as well as fly at high speed like a turboprop airplane. This prototype was a single seat aircraft. There was no transmission but only a complex computer set to control power distribution coming from the APU. The cockpit has a main tactile-screen (today known as a touch screen). device, today largely employed on both liner and military aircrafts.