The idea is a static body VTOL design that can hover stable in the air, and also go at high speeds very efficiently with wings. Could modify dimensions as needed, but general idea, I’m unsure if there’s a major design issue?

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Probably, maybe, possibly, perhaps. All fun words. Having a hole in the wing is probably way worse than some windage. It cuts the balls out of the laminar flow and pressure differential. I’m no pilot, but as a sailor I can tell you that sails do not perform very well with holes in them.

    Why not make the little ramp at the front of the wing so the air flows over it like a ramp and then you can do away with the entire rest of the wing?

    • jaykrown@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 hours ago

      Indeed, you clearly know what you’re talking about. A little ramp at the front of the wing would help, with a divet on the other side of the hole to smooth the air flowing down into the other side.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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        2 hours ago

        Now you’ve just made a shorter wing. With big turbulence pockets at the tips. You should look at the DARPA challenge, the VTOL drone that will have to do a long course and deliver things. It’s on YouTube.

        • jaykrown@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 hours ago

          The DARPA challenge seems like it was just to see what could lift the most weight, which I’m not really interested in. I’m interested in the most efficient rapid VTOL UAV design that can pick up and drop off a payload the average size of a food delivery from Uber Eats.