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What exactly do you think is the point of helicopter rotors?
by superuser2 12y ago
What exactly do you think is the point of helicopter rotors?
- ceejayoz 12y agoTo generate lift. It's most certainly not to shield the helicopter from attacks from above.
- superuser2 12y agoExactly. How do you imagine rotors generating lift when enclosed by a roof?
- bdg 12y agoSomething as basic as a wire mesh would fit the bill.
- andygates 12y agoIt probably wouldn't, when the rotor has incredible suction and the tangle wire is very thin. I would certainly expect an attacker using monofilament and a defender using several-mm mesh to go the way of the attacker. Too much protection and you lose the airflow. I must immediately tape speaker mesh to my AR drone! FOR SCIENCE!
- krapp 12y agoNot that.
- Morphling 12y agoYeah, I'm not aerospace engineer, but couldn't you just put the roof like 10 cm above the rotors so it has enough air flow?