Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Rings a Bell?


Very satisfied to see that the outline of this vehicle is not unlike that of my own, especially after the transition to forward flight. In fact I had given some thought to rendering the side-panniers in the shape of aerofoils, but assigned it to the back-burner as a mod too far at this earliest of stages.

Good news too that it has only four (instead of our eight) propellers, which reinforces the public perception already established by the likes of DJI that to all intents and purposes these things tend to fail systemically if at all, and not as a result of individual power-plants.

Nonetheless knowing how often electronic speed-controllers fail given the power driven through them, I won't be getting in that box any time soon lest I end up in a brass-handled version.