I have some friends, that lives in Maryland, that combined remote control helicopters with cameras from broken camcorders and TV rabbit transmitters over 20 years ago. They learned to fly them quiet well from their TV receivers. It was a hobby.
This project is a fine example of why our Country is so deep in debt.
I have no problem with financing military hardware development but too many of these projects are just stupid excuses to spend Government money.
Yes the wealth is transferred back into our economy.
It’s research. It may look stupid but I was thinking if you enlarged it so that it was 60-70 ft and were able to generate lift comparable to a helicopter ........ Well then you might have a vertical lift vehicle without a tail rotor Or fear of the Jesus bolt failing or two big propellers rotating.
I’d rather waste money on DARPA than beer, pot, television cable service and cell phone for the parasites and feral youths wandering our country.