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What would be your guess? I'm reading this as describing straight line wing flight for long distances rapidly shifting to erratic motions if someone doesn't lik
by neltnerb 4y ago
What would be your guess? I'm reading this as describing straight line wing flight for long distances rapidly shifting to erratic motions if someone doesn't like it existing. I imagine it's much more efficient at that, assuming that shell is mostly batteries anyway.
Very neat to watch, I'd be curious to hear under what conditions it's worse than a quadcopter, perhaps stability or how quick it can turn.
- chabons 4y agoWe're thinking along the same lines, I guess I just expected the upsides and downsides of the approach to be quantified somewhere in the research as context for why it's meaningful.
- yencabulator 4y ago> Very neat to watch, I'd be curious to hear under what conditions it's worse than a quadcopter, perhaps stability or how quick it can turn. Well, a quadcopter can fly with one busted motor/prop, this thing probably can't. Winged flight is definitely for superior distance and loiter times.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoGood point on the redundancy. Another obvious drawback would be more surface to get buffeted by wind when in hover.