Once the Naysayers are made powerless then the innovators can get on doing what they do even if they come from a small town. This is an aviation forum and I seem to recall a couple of lads from a small town called Dayton did rather well for themselves.
Yes but they seemed to have grasped the basic principles quite well. The current iterations of supposed human carrying drones are hell bent on ignoring them.
There is a reason why helo's have mostly single rotors with low RPM high aspect ratio blades. Aside from the energy efficiencies and mass inertia capability and large disc area which makes autorotation capable it also has vastly less failure points.
Unless the current crop of multi multi engine drones have found the secret fountain of light weight energy they're screwed from the outset. I suspect they're all just one discarded wafting woolies shopping bag away from disaster.