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?

  • Fierro@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Rotor spin needs to even out or else it would spin all the time, that’s why drones have an even amount of rotors AFAIK.

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      2 days ago

      Rotor spin does need to have something providing a balancing force if you don’t want to spin. That’s why helicopters have tail rotors and quads have two CW props and two CCW props. That said, before quads became the standard design there was a lot of experimenting with tricopters, two motors that have opposing spin directions at the front and the third motor mounted on a “tail boom” that could be rotated by a servo to tilt the propeller to create the forces to not rotate and keep a heading or to turn the craft. So not all “drone” designs have an even number of props.

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        1 day ago

        I see how what I said taken literally sounds like that’s the only way to balance torque, didn’t mean it, couldn’t even remember the word torque before lmao.