I've been arguing for years now that we live in a concentration camp type of world where the economy is literally fake, like as if army generals were literally picking prices and determining market supply regardless of what would be true demand with a veneer privatization distracting most people most of the time... this isnt something that will ever be verifiable but its something we should be able to extrapolate given observations of distortions... easiest to see would be how labor is detached from supply and demand (
human vending machines), less easy to see would be the missing products that would obviously be there if the whole "profit" narrative in a free society was honest... the easiest example to see would be the Gossamer Albatross...
as if they couldnt wrap it a few more layers... as if the design cant get any stronger with a second wing 3ft above... use two of the 350 watt motors, two propellers on either side... this is not complicated... its like they tried Gossamer and then got distracted for 40 years or something... there is no market...
In terms of the actual Albatross minimalist design, they could be popular at the beach or other water ways... the plains would have them too... Not sure how much more altitude you would get after adding a 350 watt motor when he's already 5ft just on his own... "The Gossamer Albatross human-powered airplane was pedaled by an athletic cyclist. During its historic crossing of the English Channel, it achieved a maximum speed of 18 mph, and an average altitude of 5 feet. Its wingspan is 97 feet." ......................................................
Btw, the paramotor people (propeller engines on a backpack) use a flexible parachute type wingspan... probably the best way to do that in terms of weight... not sure what the limitations would be for those, like imagine a flying car thing... idk