Originally Posted by
CRM114
So they "rapid prototyped" a prop from the Terminator movie?
More like the Hollywood movie ripped off the 1950's US aerospace industry- here is a list of all the VTOL machines that were never built (3/4 way down). The computer tech needed to run them has only recently been developed in the last ten years. They are very heavy on stability computation and heretofore nothing could work the controls equations fast enough to prove viable.
List of Total VTOL Aircraft