Abstract: A wingless aircraft that has a generally truncated cone fuselage that has a cockpit in the upper thereof in which the pilot sits, and a transparent rigid dome mounted on the upper portion of the fuselage that extends over the pilot. A number of equally spaced, elongate, jet engine assemblies are pivotally and adjustably supported within the fuselage, with each engine in communication with an air inlet defined in the fuselage. Each jet engine assembly includes a combustion chamber that has an elongate tubular nozzle extending downwardly therefrom, in which exhaust openings are defined through which the hot gaseous products of combustion discharge. The exhaust openings are elongate and substantially angularly disposed relative to the vertical, and as a result the exhaust gases not only rotate the nozzle but exert a reactive force sufficient to lift the fuselage to an airborne position.