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Ask HN: Why are quadcopters not flown like helicopters yet?
Not RC quadcopters, but actual size ones, which carry people. Are they even being built? Would they not be more stable?
Edit: found this. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1708654
- arlenarlenarlen 13y agoThere are a lot of reasons, but one that comes to mind is that quadcopters can't autorotate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter) Also batteries suck.
- ratsimihah 13y agoThanks! How would the batteries of an helicopter and quadcopter differ?
- dllthomas 13y agoMy understanding has it one issue is that a lot of the control-system benefits of the tiny quadcopter go away when you scale up and the blades have actual mass (so changing their speed is hard).
- ratsimihah 13y agoAlso on StackOverflow: http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3300/why-havent-quadcopters-been-scaled-up-yet/3305?noredirect=1#3305 http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3300/why-havent-...