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I felt the same, like you're flying on thrust not lift... having a background in rc planes (3D flying) usually you need 250watts/lb to hover at half throttle an
by ge96 9y ago
I felt the same, like you're flying on thrust not lift... having a background in rc planes (3D flying) usually you need 250watts/lb to hover at half throttle and yeah I always wonder how drones will fly for a long time being a thrust-based flight. If they had fuel cells or something... gas is great with regard to keeping output and decreasing in mass... but batteries same mass, decreasing power... I don't know.
edit: I realize thrust/lift arguably the same thing ie. rotating airfoil/wing but purely talking about energy consumption ie. motor off or low power for level flight.
- convolvatron 9y agothe forces are the same...but isn't there at least a qualitative difference between a 'lift wing', which creates a force tangential to the flow of air and a 'fan' which shoves air one way and moves in the opposite direction? (obviously I'm not a aeronautical engineer)
- ge96 9y agoI mean, a propeller is two wings mounted on an axis facing opposite directions rotating "infinitely" 360 degrees so... I don't know, I'm not an AE either.