Look straight down as well as straight up.
Conquered Japan then... until they legislate against it.
Joe Public's appetite for new UAV tech must surely have a limit, but that's still some way off if the case of the SkyProwler "Multi-Mission VTOL Transformer Drone" is any indication. Having soared past its $100,000 Kickstarter goal in a matter of days, Arizona-based Krossblade Aerospace Systems is set to unleash the vehicle …
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There are plenty of better options if you really wanted something like this for nefarious use. 550g is quite a low payload as far as some UAVs / multicopters / model aircraft go.
However, the most recent incidents seem to involve people with no regard for their own safety, so why go to all that trouble?
Besides, almost everything can be used for ill. You can deliver a lot more than 550g with a car or a truck (ask the IRA) but we haven't banned them yet. Mobile phones make excellent triggers but we haven't banned those either.
I'm more interested in doing useful things with new technology than worrying about what anyone else might do with it.
if I am understanding the design correctly, the VTOL blades just fold away on arms when in normal flight in the Blade mode whilst seperate pusher props and motor(s) provide the forward impetus. Which seems an awful waste of space and weight. I'd be much more impressed if the design had pivoting rotors ala V-22 Osprey.