ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep

So, imagine you have a really cool toy car. The car can go really fast and you love playing with it. Now, imagine if someone told you that they made a toy car that can not only drive on the ground, but it can also fly like a helicopter!

That's what the Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep is, a flying car! It was made a long time ago to help the military, but it looks like a toy. It has three big propellers on top and it can fly up in the sky like a helicopter.

The Airgeep was made to be very small so that it can get into tight spaces and fly around in places that regular helicopters can't go to. It wasn't used very much because it was really hard to control and not many people knew how to fly it.

Now, there are even cooler flying cars out there, but the Airgeep will always be remembered as one of the first ones that people made.