Hopefully this concept remains with DARPA and remains just a concept

[Birdog8585]

DARPA should already know that this is not a new concept. A guy by the name of Alan Gerbino has come up with essentially the same thing some time ago and holds patents on the rotor disk assembly - "Retractable Lifting Blades for Aircraft."

Gerbino Flight Systems

Their promo spot should answer a lot of questions:

Their team is working on the prototype now in California.

 

[phrogdriver]

FOUR engines! That alone makes it sketchy and poorly thought-out to me.

 

[Beans]

Solved 100% of the problems. Well, at least they're being honest with themselves.

 

[nittany03]

Instead of flushing money into DARPA for farsighted, never put into production fantasies

And you're posting this on the Internet. Irony is the spice of life.

 

[eas7888]

And you're posting this on the Internet. Irony is the spice of life.

Just to add to what he said . . . (ARPANET)

 

[Trev82]

And you're posting this on the Internet. Irony is the spice of life.

Thank you for pointing that out, thank you DARPA for the internet.

 

[STARFlight145]

This is clearly a job for the Whispercraft!