Birds can hover, they can fly backwards and sideways.
And air-cars are just the beginning. Image courtesy of Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center. The task of the Morphing Project is to envision what cutting-edge aerospace design will be like 20 years from now and begin developing the technologies to make it happen. For example, a personal air-car needs to be compact, yet able to fly at both very low and very high speeds. The kind of wing you need at very low speed and the kind of wing you need at high speeds are completely different.