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Re:Flying Taxis May Be Years Away, but the Groundwork Is Acc... by nradov on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:38PM (#16513127)
You're never going to get auto-rotation ability out of an aircraft like that. Even with variable pitch the rotors have insufficient mass.

The only practical option is independent dual redundant power systems so that one failure can't take out more than half the propellers. Plus a rocket assisted ballistic recovery parachute to allow a (mostly) survivable crash landing in case of a catastrophic failure. Of course there will still be some rare failure modes where a parachute won't be sufficient.

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Re:Flying Taxis May Be Years Away, but the Groundwork Is Acc... by ShorsHammer on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:45PM (#16513307)
Autorotation is an immutable property of variable pitch rotors. Whether it can land properly without hurting a person is a physics/biology problem

3rd answer down :)

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/37360/can-a-pas...

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