I know that the V-22 has been reminding everyone that Moving Parts Are Not Your Friends for years now; but I’m still somewhat surprised that the demand for larger payloads and longer ranges hasn’t (at least in available PR shots) driven any visible movement from a slightly larger version of the basic quad-copter design.
Quads are capable of impressive stunts; but I would have thought that adding some sort of lift surface would become attractive when you are going to be doing most of your flying from point A to point B with just a little bit of landing on each end, not swarm research or hovering about for photography or such.
