This guy was able to do it with a 440cc engine. http://thehottestgadgets.com/2008/07/vertipod-personal-flying-platform-001176 Here's a few ideas too. http://ultralight-airplanes.info/amazing-personal-helicopters-rotorcraft.pl
Uh oh. Time for fat kids to go on a diet. I wonder if this'll start happening everywhere else. http://gizmodo.com/5680022/san-francisco-bans-happy-meals
This guy had everyone fooled. He might have got away with it if he didn't make a rather stupid mistake. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/04/canada.disguised.passenger/index.html?hpt=C1
I giggled to myself when I read, America waits till Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from Britain and France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself.
He makes a very good point. On the other hand, going in as a "CB" in the Navy you could get $20,000 sign on bonus. CBs go into the desert and build stuff. They work alongside the Marines a lot. They're ALWAYS looking for CBs.