"Jeff-God-of-Biscuits" (Jeff-God-of-Biscuits)
11/27/2013 at 09:26 • Filed to: None
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And she just maidened!
Nibbles
> Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
11/27/2013 at 09:27 |
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Needless overcomplication?
Dubblewhopper
> Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
11/27/2013 at 09:31 |
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It would make a cool decapitation device.
Party-vi
> Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
11/27/2013 at 09:34 |
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Someone made a camera drone that you can fly. Neat.
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Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
> Nibbles
11/27/2013 at 09:36 |
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Maybe, but I wonder how many could let go before it had a major impact on flight stability? Redundant systems are a good thing when they keep your butt from plummeting to the ground at a high rate of speed.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Nibbles
11/27/2013 at 10:07 |
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That's what I thought at first too, but if you've got individual electric drives, the mechanical losses aren't substantially more than one big one would be, and there are at least another three big advantages: tip speed issues/pitch difference reduction, noise, and rotor wash/turbulence issues. For the first, heading forward in a helo normally means dropping pitch on the leading blade substantially and makes for a severe upper limit on speed (tip speed + helo speed =< Mach 1, ideally). For the second, less of a giant vortex and lots of smaller blades cutting the air is quieter. Third, this is more of a distributed cushion of air than a tall axially aligned funnel of stability the helo has to balance on.