Re:The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV
by sebastos on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:28PM
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Great answers, thanks for the insight! Responses to the responses:
2. Definitely squares with what I remember of the problem. Seems like accommodating the most extreme operating conditions would compromise the design so strongly that it's better to just constrain the envelope it's intended to work inside. If you can reach continuous operation at "reasonable" latitudes during a large portion of the year, that could still be a strong value proposition.
3+5: Gotcha, so I just wasn't appreciating how small the tether cross-section really is.
4. Ah, makes sense - that sounds much cleaner. 4 flying wings trying to do a VTOL while attached to a weight seemed a little crazy.
1+ 6. Wow! So this is one big boi. Pretty cool. I would have pictured a much faster rate of revolution.
2. Definitely squares with what I remember of the problem. Seems like accommodating the most extreme operating conditions would compromise the design so strongly that it's better to just constrain the envelope it's intended to work inside. If you can reach continuous operation at "reasonable" latitudes during a large portion of the year, that could still be a strong value proposition.
3+5: Gotcha, so I just wasn't appreciating how small the tether cross-section really is.
4. Ah, makes sense - that sounds much cleaner. 4 flying wings trying to do a VTOL while attached to a weight seemed a little crazy.
1+ 6. Wow! So this is one big boi. Pretty cool. I would have pictured a much faster rate of revolution.