My wife used to date...

...this guy. And yes, he's working on a human powered flying device. In fact, he was working on it ten years ago when they dated.

I once had the opportunity to discuss with this guy his plans to fly under his own power. Being a Mechanical Engineer by way of education, I was quite interested in his designs and spent a long time drawing him out and encouraging him to share. He even stood up on a chair and flapped his "wings" for us to show how he might hover in place like a hummingbird. He's a crazy person. Literally crazy. Somehow, my wife made it to the third date before realizing this. nice job, hon.

This is a link to a quicktime file of his flight attempt in 2003 at the Birdman challenge in the UK. Words cannot do it justice.

He also mentioned, during our engineering heart to heart, that he had perfected the skill of refreshing food in the microwave. He said that he could take a cheeseburger that's been in the back of his car for a while and microwave it so that you couldn't tell that it was a few days old. I'm sure he could...

Clearly, once she hit rock bottom with this guy, I started to look pretty good to her...