Comment by Yuan Gao on August 12, 2011 at 10:31pm

Is this related to University of Maryland's maple seed copter?

Comment by Pieter van Woerkom on August 13, 2011 at 1:06am

mine running an APM

see topic:jaw-dropping-project-but-need-a-little-help

Comment by Jack Crossfire on August 13, 2011 at 4:50am

 

But can it draw Marcy 1 & Air Force logos in the air?

Comment by Jhon on August 13, 2011 at 5:40am

whats the sens of this? camera is always in movement, no way to get a decent image

Comment by Lee on August 13, 2011 at 5:50am

I could really use this if it had a real blade to cut down some tree branches way up in the air!

Comment by Geoffrey L. Barrows on August 13, 2011 at 8:01am

The samara configuration is pretty cool. One advantage is a large amount of passive stability since any lateral imbalances are canceled out by the rotation.

@Yuan- The University of Maryland vehicle is a different project than Lockheed's.

Comment by bGatti on August 13, 2011 at 9:53am

This takes the unusual step of including the motor on the wing side of the equation.
Moving the center of mass toward the single wing results in less of the wing moving productively - and in extreme cases, in part of the wing moving backwards through the air.

Still, with enough battery weight etc; it can be reasonable.

Props in the uncontested airstream may outperform props straddling the airfoil - however, we might consider a wing-leading prop to be in the least turbulent air.

Developer Comment by Randy on August 13, 2011 at 6:19pm

very reminiscent of Jack Crossfire's Marcy 1 work.

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