Your Quadcopter Has Three Propellers Too Many - Hackaday

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Your Quadcopter Has Three Propellers Too Many
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While studying failure modes for quadcopters, and how to get them safely to the ground with less than a full quad of propellers, a group of researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich came up with a great idea: a mode of ...

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Where does the camera go? Seriously though, guys have been using 1 blade props on their airplanes since the sixties, but this takes it to a new level

 

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Where does the camera go? Seriously though, guys have been using 1 blade props on their airplanes since the sixties, but this takes it to a new level

Hahaha, yeah don't forget helis, if yaw were fine they could fly with one blade, though you'd have several moving parts.


I've seen footage from a boomerang (the guy used a tail to align it and really good bearings to keep it from spinning with the boomerang)