Conflicted on this, on one hand things listed make it all sound crackpot. Then again he is listed as a researcher in Navy R&D (http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad

Conflicted on this, on one hand things listed make it all sound crackpot. Then again he is listed as a researcher in Navy R&D (http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/ http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/) Also is that typical for supposedly cutting edge things from a defense perspective to get patented before a functional use case is demonstrated?