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Steering with just vertical motion alone won't work unpowered as well? At that size the pump has quite something to do, and needs to be temperated. Here is a n
by throwbadubadu 4y ago
Steering with just vertical motion alone won't work unpowered as well? At that size the pump has quite something to do, and needs to be temperated.
Here is a nice article from analysis, prior art, to some guesses about lot more details, just need your favorite translation tool: https://steadyhq.com/en/realitatsabzweig/posts/90669d9f-e2f2-4793-a213-be6570e77d80 https://steadyhq.com/en/realitatsabzweig/posts/90669d9f-e2f2...
Power is needed for the pump to go up and down, eventual rudder/rotors, to keep hardware warm enough (!), and also large array because in contrast to Loon no transparent material but very reflective one, which has advantages but comes with more self-shading (counter with larger array).
Also btw, propellers were present also on the later Loons already..