edf tricopter

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i thin it would be cool to take 3 70mm edf's and make a tricopter it wouldn't fly as long butt hoo cairs
 

colorex

Rotor Riot!
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Yeah, I had a similar thought the other day. A guy on RCGroups built what he calls an EDFcopter. He's done a really good job in black carbon fiber, with a sci-fi look.

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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1422808&page=6

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1422808

And yes, it's not as effective. I would have made the fans themselves move instead of just vectoring the airflow.
 

colorex

Rotor Riot!
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What I would like to see is a race tricopter. A tri, but with an EDF pointed backwards!
 

Non Action Man

Nose Landing Specialist
I've seen you tube vids of a thrust vectored EDF tricopter, if you search for terminator hunter killer then you should find something... I'll have a looky....

....ok found this

It'd be noisy as though
 
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ananas1301

Crazy flyer/crasher :D
Yeah I think it is just too ineffective and unstable... But it´s a cool idea, definitely.

How about have a Tricopter that can hover normally like all the others do but if it wants to go for normal flight it tilts all 3 motors to the front ( or switches the rear one off and the front ones pull the "plane" only) sothat you have a normal plane then.
So basically VTOL!
 

ananas1301

Crazy flyer/crasher :D
the secent you rotate the motor to the frunt you loos lift and drop like a rock


I know, the conversion between the two sets will be difficult to program. I thought of probably getting a wing, so that it starts to glide for a while until the motors switch to the front fully and then you can apply some throttle again for quicker forward flight.

I think I have seen a video a little like that on youtube. I´ll look for it.
 

ananas1301

Crazy flyer/crasher :D
Found it :D


Here another one showing the idea of what I mean. I think though this used the steering of a Bicopter.

 
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