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Design and performance of Bi-Planar Rotors or Propellers
BLUF: a stacked (i.e., coaxial rotors that are co-rotational) rotor system is generally more efficient (consensus seems to sit on the order of 5-10% in general cases) and quieter than an isolated ...
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Design and performance of Bi-Planar Rotors or Propellers
This technology has been called numerous things over the years.
Hamilton Standard investigated 'Variable Camber Propellers'.
There was some old research done by Sikorski that called it 'Variable ...
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Could you make a quadcopter whose propellers can also work as wheels?
A very comprehensive study into what you are describing is published in Nature Communications under the exciting title "Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) with appendage repurposing for ...
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