If you do the stabilisation with the rotors in the usual helicopter way, you basically have a Chinook (though you don’t need the extra steering propeller because you can control the rotors well enough)
A Chinook was basically what I was envisioning… what does a Chinook do that my U-shaped proposal wouldn’t do? How does stabilization with rotors work? EDIT: Ok, so helicopters use some sort of weighted balls attached to their rotors, and maybe some flexibility in the rotors also… I still don’t fully understand how it works but it seems like there are probably explainer videos somewhere.
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If you do the stabilisation with the rotors in the usual helicopter way, you basically have a Chinook (though you don’t need the extra steering propeller because you can control the rotors well enough)
A Chinook was basically what I was envisioning… what does a Chinook do that my U-shaped proposal wouldn’t do? How does stabilization with rotors work? EDIT: Ok, so helicopters use some sort of weighted balls attached to their rotors, and maybe some flexibility in the rotors also… I still don’t fully understand how it works but it seems like there are probably explainer videos somewhere.
Yeah, the mechanics of helicopter rotors is pretty complex and a bit counter-intuitive, Smarter Every Day has a series on it