Air Hook

If the concept behind a fish hook or an arrow point is that it goes in easy and it is difficult to pull out then the concept behind this invention is that it goes up easily and it is difficult to pull down. This would be a three dimensional air "hook". I dont have the design drawn out or modeled but just the general idea. It would be a spiraled propellor-spring that fans out when it is pulled and closes up when it is pushed. I dont know if you would make one really big one and try to pump it up and down with your legs like a giant pogo stick, or zillions of tiny small ones that you could microscopically attach to your flying suit so that it would only go up in the air and resist any downward movement. Or maybe the answer would be to stick right in the middle with just a few of these one-way propellors attached say to each joint on the body of a human-powered flying suit.

Hmm. I may not be explaining the structure of this thing well enough. It would be like a spiral aerodynamic umbrella. Or like a negative corkscrew undulating one-way propellor. Or like a three-dimentionally "barbed" air "hook". It would also be really adaptive and really tapered so that the edges were infinitely thin and floppy and would slice adaptively into the air and the core of the thing was teutoniumly solid and unfloppy.

Looking back on this I forgot to say that it would be a one-piece design with no moving parts -- adaptive design.