What amazed me was the tiny size of the prop on the VariEze, it looks like something off of a oversized RC plane
Aviation Week had him write a article about what aircraft would be like
100 years back in 2000. He designed a tail-sitting VTOL fighter, but said that's not what military aircraft would be like at all in the future. In the future a soldier shows up with something around the size of a shoebox opens it, and around 100 things around the size dragonflies come out of it driven by nanotech jet engines. These ignore friendly forces who are carrying IFF gear, but they fly straight into the foreheads of anyone who isn't carrying IFF gear and fire a small shaped charged straight into their brain. That should scare the hell out of anyone who thinks they may be in the area. His timescale may have been off though: