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Originally Posted by freebeard
My guess would be no swashplates. All the control is in software. Regular helicopters can't do that thing where they flip on their back.
Plimp is located in Seattle, WA. Jetoptera is in Edmonds, WA; a short flight North. I want to see a Jetoptera powerplant in a Plimp airframe.
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Lighter than air, now that's where the action's at. Sure, not fast, but efficient when the main objective is to avoid congestion.
Make it H2 rather than He, and you might get something fairly compact, too. Both gasses are fantastic at thermal conductivity, so cooling the electrics would be easily accomplished by enclosing them in the envelope.