Been preoccupied by life's preoccupations, which I recall one of the webinistas warned against in the pursuit of projects such as this.
I keep coming back to the wearable, which is telling because most inventors succeed at whatever it is they keep returning to, guided by gut feeling.
With eight rotors to mount on the airframe the only question is as to whether the beast is to be four-legged or eight i.e. do we colocate the eight motors in pairs one atop the other or else provide eight separate cantilevers?
The airframe is made up of two identical modules like the one pictured above, with the proviso that the lower is inverted to produce that extra set of legs.
I mock that second set up in part as seen so as to convince myself that the tips of the upper four propellers rotate clear of the motors belonging to the lower set, which they do by about a half-inch. Clearance between those tips and the edge of the flight deck however is nearer five inches... a big improvement on the minimal clearance offered by the the larger diameter propellers considered at the outset.
Been a good day in the workshop although it didn't really kick off until mid-day. The hardest part of all such enterprises is ~ as with much else in life ~ merely getting started.
