No worries, this machine is not even remotely likely to get made. Airplane companies have their R&D departments come up proposals crazier than this every day. There could be any number of purposes for making a patent application, maybe it's misdirection from a more significant alternative, or maybe it is protection for something hidden in the design detail. Hard to know.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 06-27-2012 at 07:39 PM.