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Yamaha has introduced an upgraded version of its Fazer R G2 unmanned helicopter, or drone, equipping it with more thrust and greater payload capacity. This should make it more suitable for carrying out aerial deliveries, which the company expects to he… Continue reading Yamaha’s beefed-up unmanned helicopter can carry up to 50 kg
Picking propeller size for any aircraft, but especially VTOLs, it’s a tradeoff between size and RPM. You can either move a large volume of air slowly or a small volume …read more Continue reading Large Tip Driven Copter Turns Very Slowly
It looks as though the Mars Ingenuity flight team is starting to press the edge of the envelope a bit. The tiny rotorcraft, already 280-something sols into a mission that …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 12, 2021
It’s one thing to speculate about what’s happening with the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, but it’s another to get an insider’s view on recent flight problems. As we previously reported, Ingenuity …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 3, 2021
Things might be getting a bit dicey out in Jezero crater for Ingenuity. The little helicopter that could is starting to have trouble dealing with the thinning Martian atmosphere, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 19, 2021
One of the major perks of all the affordable flight controllers and motors available from the hobby market is that you can really experiment with some crazy aircraft designs. [amazingdiyprojects] …read more Continue reading Coaxcopter to Carry Man
Radio control toys can be great fun to play with. However, at the bottom end of the market, sometimes you find you’ve bought something that just doesn’t work quite right. …read more Continue reading Re-Engineering an RC Helicopter via Tinkercad
When asked why he robbed banks, career criminal Willie Sutton is reported to have said, “Because that’s where the money is.” It turns out that a reporter made up the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 27, 2021
It’s the same on Mars as it is here — just when you’re getting used to your job, the bosses go and change things up. At least that’s our read …read more Continue reading Ingenuity Completes Fourth Flight on Mars, Gets a New Mission
[Tom] likes to build little helicopters and decided to build one that runs on compressed air. (Video, embedded below.) Turns out it was a little harder than he thought. Originally, …read more Continue reading Helicopter is Full of Compressed Air