With a new foot-rest fitted (think barber-shop chair), vehicle's ready to be transferred to the people who'll get it flying. With it goes the paraphernalia of flight-testing, and I am still light on propellers, never having replaced those damaged during the testing of a previous prototype at Llanbedr almost a year since. It's one advantage of running a quadcopter instead of an octocopter (into which this is easily converted, however), the overall simplicity of the thing.
There are few benefits as things stand in eight motors anyway unless you've means to render the software and hardware practically bullet-proof at great expense: the reason that every video you see at the personal air vehicle (PAV) end of the scale features few people operating much above the five metre mark. Plus ~ ever the case with aircraft ~ if you double the number of power-units you double the statistical chance of failure.
But isn't that Wilko paint instead of Post Office Red you see? Perfect's the enemy of the good!
