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Old 05-08-2019, 10:07 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
What's the advantage of a quadcopter? A helicopter is more efficient, and have been around longer.

I keep asking that question, and nobody seems to know why quads caught on while helicopters did not. There's no reason a heli couldn't incorporate the same control schemes used to stabilize a quad.
For drone size copters the quadcopter is mechanically simpler. You don't need the complex mechanism to tilt the rotor fore / aft and side to side to control pitch and roll. Instead you just vary the speed of each rotor. That should make quadcopters cheaper to manufacture.
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