Attached Link: Hiller Flying Platform

Mmm. The model is great! The idea is good fun too! But I do not think something like this ever flew for real. Your photo looks suspiciously like a retouche/illustratin job. The platform has too deep blacks, according to the rest of the photo, there is less noise in the platform, it is sharper then anything else in the picture, the perspecive seems a little off and there is a strange repeating black dot on the left and right of the picture. And the cables that supported the thing are gone. This probably seemed like a good idea in 1960, but I guess reality kept rearing it's ugly head. The closest humanity has come to this was the hoovercraft (maybe based on these experiments?) Nice idea to revamp this fun part of aviation history!