Tooling about at max cruise is the easy part.
Getting to/from max cruise is the happy land of "All you have to do is..." where the weary throng of engineers labor to make the grand dreams of others become a bit closer to fact.
Been retired from that business for long enough now that I don't even feel sorrow when I see one of these click bait media announcements.
Agreed. Every time I hear about drones, all I can think about is a 30KT crosswind component and IFR conditions.
I have several hundred hours in the MU-2. Transition phases of flight are real squirrely. Don’t blink too long.