Timeline for Could Swashplate be replaced with small electric motors?
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| Aug 1 at 8:58 | comment | added | Jpe61 | @Michael It would seem so, but being (mostly) mechanical, the engineering behind the swashplate design is relatively simple and very much proven. This is entirely not the case with electronics, and certainly not with programming | |
| Aug 1 at 8:51 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | @Michael but failures in an electronic system would likely be sudden and catastrophic, whereas in a swashplate they would more typically announce themselves via excessive vibration, sticky controls, loss of hydraulic pressure etc. before actually becoming bad enough to cause a crash. Redundancy can help to some extend in the electronic case, but it incurs a lot of complexity and failure opportunity of its own (you need to ensure the systems don't "fight each other"). | |
| Aug 1 at 4:39 | comment | added | Michael | Isn't a swashplate a complex system with lots of single points of failure as well? | |
| Jul 31 at 16:50 | history | edited | Jpe61 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31 at 11:04 | history | answered | Jpe61 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |