Recent content by Dark Skies

Respectfully, that's comparing aerodynamic apples and oranges. Rotor aircraft get ALL their lift from the engines turning the rotors, airPLANES get their lift from their wings thanks to our friend Mr. Bernoulli. Their engines are only responsible for propelling the plane fast enough for the...

Okay, I decided to look up some tech sheets about this, which in retrospect I should've figured out - a single rotor drone would have a miniature version of the ridiculously complex drivetrain of a manned chopper, swash plates and all the other tech necessary to manipulate that one rotors blades...

Yes, that makes sense. To my original question, why is the quad+ configuration so popular with small UAVs?

So I'm sitting and musing about things last night, and I got to wondering, why are multi-rotor (usually four) configurations so ubiquitous in the consumer/recreational drone space? Is there a practical technical reason for this? Are there any single/dual rotor consumer drones? I know that r/c...

Since I couldn't find a way to delete this post, I'll just reply to it, advising to disregard the question. I went ahead and downloaded the highest-rated of the apps on Google play, which is the Autopylot one.

Got my TRUST cert., any feedback on which of the handful of FAA-approved companies would be preferable to get the app from, or are they all pretty much the same? Thx.

Thanks to all who replied, I haven't flown the drone (hey, that rhymed!) in a few days due to some sketchy weather here in Eastern/Central NC, but I've got a clear (but hot) window today so I'm getting ready to do another training flight. As I mentioned earlier this is a bit of a step up in...

Hello. I'm a new drone user (pilot?). My first drone was a super basic Ascend ASC-2500 - basically an RC quad-copter. That stopped working recently so I purchased a Chubory X-10 Pro GPS. A slight upgrade in price, but far more complicated for a newbie such as myself. And I have questions.