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Computerized controls and CFD have made these multi-thruster aircraft practical to design and fly. These things are promised to be way easier to fly than conven
by carabiner 5y ago
Computerized controls and CFD have made these multi-thruster aircraft practical to design and fly. These things are promised to be way easier to fly than conventional helicopters, with stuff like autolanding since fly-by-wire has become almost a commodity. The flowfields from having 10+ fans interacting with a body was also impractical to analyze in previous generations, but now CFD tooling has caught up and we can get good results without physical tests (of course you still need testing at the end).
- beaconstudios 5y agoIt's not so much that I thought them impossible - but what problem are they actually solving?
- carabiner 5y agoControllability, safety, carbon emissions, NOISE, better forward flight performance in some cases. Flying a helicopter is VERY hard and that is a huge barrier to public acceptance, but you need a VTOL craft for a practical everyday air transport. What problem does OS X solve over raw FreeBSD? This is a vastly smoother experience.