On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:05:16 GMT, kontiki
wrote in :

Yeah sure, but its not practical for anything but an hour or two of
playing around on a Saturday afternoon.

I'll bet you would have said something similar to the Wrights. :-)
Where's you vision, man?

Now here's an electrically powered aircraft that really is playing
around: http://www.nesail.com/videos/jazz.wmv