In the 1980s VTOL Industries Australia Ltd of St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA devised, through its managing direct, Kim V Sadleir, a new approach to VTOL technology and much testing with two test rigs was carried out in an advance research and development stage.

Known as Project Skyward, work upon which commenced during World War II in March 1943, the DCA Fleep, as it was known, was a conversion of a Willys 4 x 4 ¼-ton Jeep to accept a gyrocopter head so it could be flown to battle areas