. "1"^^ . . . "The SNECMA C.450 Col\u00E9opt\u00E8re (meaning \"beetle\" in French, descended from Greek for \"sheathed wing\") was a VTOL aircraft developed by the French company SNECMA in the 1950s. It was a single-person aircraft with an annular wing designed to take-off and land vertically, therefore requiring no runway and very little space. The sole prototype was destroyed on its ninth flight."@en .