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Permalink Reply by Andy Gongora on August 25, 2010 at 5:36pm

Just found this page with lots of layouts.
But althought it's a wiki-like page, there's no extra info (at least when i click on them) about each.

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Permalink Reply by Dimitar Kolev on August 25, 2010 at 11:03pm

Which page?

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Permalink Reply by Andy Gongora on August 26, 2010 at 4:10am

http://www.mikrokopter.com/ucwiki/mkm?highlight=%28mkm%29

Sorry >./body>

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Permalink Reply by Andke on January 15, 2012 at 7:22am

Any difference in ability to remain stable in strong, uneven wind ?

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Permalink Reply by Andy Gongora on January 15, 2012 at 7:40am

Well, this is kind of an old thread, but since none of the questions were never really answered, I don't think the admins will mind.

To answer your questions, I'd say that having more surface will affect positively the stability, so I guess radials are more stable. But dont really listen to me.

In the end, this toys are really unstable by nature, so what you really need is a good software to handle external fluctuations

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Permalink Reply by Nicholas Davidson on September 3, 2012 at 7:35am

Did you guys see the Small Girl Flies form Octocopter video ?  Crazy  http://youtu.be/6c1lzXBMcxM

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Permalink Reply by Neil Ohnemus on February 10, 2013 at 6:07am

Nice Job!

I would like to propose a couple of additional items.

1. Naming of drone types.

• Seems like we need to make a common nomenclature.
  • Example of top level classes with each having sub classes.
    • Drone types:
      • Blimp
      • Rover
      • Plane
      • Glider
      • Helicopter 
        • Slang:
          • Heli
          • Copter
      • Multi-Rotors 
        • Slang:
          • MR
          • Rotor
          • Multi
        • Use the term MR,Rotor,or Multi for short to avoid confusion in lingo.
        • This is obviously a deviation from a common use today, however the more popular drones become the more need there will be to have nomenclature to avoid confusion.
        • I'm sure this suggestion will go over like a box of rocks, but I'm curious what others think.

2. A thread should be started to catalogue the components people use to help other understand what components are available and allow the community to comment on component level features from items they fly.

• Example
  • The main bearings on the motors I chose are not a FRU they cannot be removed. Hence it the bearing breaks the motor is junk. (Which is sub optimal, luckly they are cheap!)

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Permalink Reply by Andy Gongora on February 10, 2013 at 9:19am

@ Neil: Your innitiative is great, and I think it shoudl be done.

But the point about this thread (which is already some years old) was to ask the differences betwen the most common multi-copter configurations. Which is the most stable, which has the greates lift-power to power consumption ratio and thinks like that under the same conditions. But those question never gor really answered.

I wasnt doing a clasification back then (maybe my post was wrong interpreted). I was doing a question because I couldnt find any satisfactory info on the net. The shame is I still dont have those points really clear :S

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Permalink Reply by Neil Ohnemus on February 14, 2013 at 4:19pm

Yeah totally understand, Honestly was just doing some reading and saw this, thought you had a great idea/request and wanted to expand to see if there was any interest. I didn't notice at the time how old the thread was!

Thanks for the response, I may work on putting together a document that would help answer your questions for all the other that have them/will have them.

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Andy Gongora on February 15, 2013 at 11:39am

That would be simply awesome. I really encourage you to continue :)

Please, if you get to write that document, let me know it. Im really interested ;)

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