Gee, what a clever new idea!
Now that Popular Science and Mechanics, both paragons of truth, justice, poor journalism and propaganda outlets supreme for anydamnthing the DARPA dreams up let's look back on 80 or so years of drive/fly boondoggles and/or fanciful ideas that JohnQ will ever be ready or capable of such. Firstly, when you try to make one machine do two radically different functions they, by design actually, do neither well. 'Jack of all trades, master of none' kind of thing. Now have the military start adding pounds by the truck load and what you have is a fantastic waste of money that will produce nothing but a good time for the designers and testers of the things, and piles of scrap metal for the buyers. Or they can park any that survive alongside all the Ospreys that they occasionally fire up just to keep the fluids in the motors from drying up.
