VTOL

PowerPoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sf0k7BxOvzhO4D-Rx32xpvXAdprWomO2CKHrD-QYoc0/edit?usp=sharing

Advantages:

  • Quick take off and landing

  • More accurate landing

  • Keep speed and agility of fixed wing

  • Don’t need a long runway

Disadvantages:

  • Need lots of power

  • More drag

  • Needs to be a pretty light plane

  • Weight from propellers

Options:

  • Tilt rotor

  • Switchblade (SkyProwler)

    • only front rotors tilt in

  • Keep vtol rotors out

  • Hybrid

    • Some tilt rotors, some switchblade or one in the back

 

Summary:

  • take off and landing are quadcopter

  • switch to switch blade or tilt rotor when we fly

 

Companies doing similar projects:

https://www.deltaquad.com/vtol-drones/cargo/

https://www.foxtechfpv.com/foxtech-nimbus-vtol-v2.html

https://wingcopter.com/

https://www.krossblade.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMLxXBZJT6M&ab_channel=KrossbladeAerospace

https://altiuas.com/

Plane similar to spike: gogizmo plane

YouTube channel with smaller vtol: https://goo.gl/NVNwFR

 


This is for a commercial plane but looks cool: