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>>2060009
What failsafe features do these things have? Parachutes would probably only be good at altitudes above 100m no?
And you cant glide down like a helicopter in case of an engine failure.
Are they literally deathtraps if something happens at 10-50m?

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 15:10:47 No.2060067 Report

Quoted By: >>2060689

why are zoomers and techbros so OBSESSED with the quadrotor form factor? what was wrong with one big rotor and a cyclic/collective control?

>>2060052
>Are they literally deathtraps if something happens at 10-50m?
yeah but so are helicopters

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Anonymous Tue 02 Dec 2025 04:42:27 No.2060096 Report

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>>2060009
Those are pretty cool but I still would rather have sex with a woman with a human vagina

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Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 20:04:11 No.2060689 Report

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>>2060067
>why are zoomers and techbros so OBSESSED with the quadrotor form factor? what was wrong with one big rotor and a cyclic/collective control?
Quadcopters are more responsive and easier to control because they allow you to remove unnecessary control surfaces and replace larger single rotors with 4 smaller rotors that don't carry as much momentum. The only reason they haven't been feasible until recently is because they generally need flight computers to maintain stability
>yeah but so are helicopters
Helicopters can autorotate on engine out though so they can still potentially land safely, I don't think quadcopters can do this though because the rotors are too small

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 13:42:32 No.2063996 Report

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>>2060038
>most efficient machine on the planet is a "toy"

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 14:10:24 No.2064004 Report

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>>2063996
>efficiency is when you waste valuable and scarce manpower on toys because you're too gay stupid to comprehend how wasteful and useless it is

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Anonymous Sun 01 Feb 2026 18:56:40 No.2064780 Report

Quoted By: >>2065235 >>2065281

>>2060009
Insisting these being purely battery powered will forever hold them back. Putting a small bike engine as a generator would greatly improve flight time and sustained peak power

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Anonymous Sat 07 Feb 2026 14:57:11 No.2065217 Report

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>>2064004
So dont have anything except bikes. Got it.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Feb 2026 17:20:27 No.2065235 Report

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>>2064780
>Putting a small bike engine as a generator would greatly improve flight time and sustained peak power
so would adding a fixed wing and small aircraft engine

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Anonymous Sat 07 Feb 2026 18:55:15 No.2065242 Report

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>>2065217
holy esl

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Anonymous Sun 08 Feb 2026 13:24:01 No.2065281 Report

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>>2064780
Lmao
Lol even

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Anonymous Wed 11 Feb 2026 23:18:06 No.2065569 Report

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>>2060009
There is a pretty obvious solution/improvement to those things.
Foldable wings that you deploy when you get high enough instead of keeping wasting massive energy on the rotors.
It's like birds, they flap the wings only to get high, but then just ride the winds and keep it easy.

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