Seven years ago, Avery Brooks kept asking in an IBM commercial: “Where are the Flying Cars?” Well hang in there Avery...they may very well be just around the corner!
And who will get first dibs on the X-Hawk? Why, the military, police, and rescue units, that’s who. And rightfully so:

“The reality is that we have not been designing helicopters to operate in urban environments,” said M.E. Rhett Flater, executive director of the American Helicopter Society, a professional group. “What Rafi is doing is addressing that need to design some kind of vehicle that can operate in an urban environment, that can get close to buildings and skyscrapers, and provide some type of relief for people stranded in buildings.”

I’ll bet the developers of the X-Hawk have watched Blade Runner dozens, if not hundreds of times. ‘Bout time too. Syd Mead definitely had the right idea.