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Originally Posted by fanaudical
I am not a fan of quad copter type craft for people. Planes can glide. Helicopters have autorotation. What happens to one of these following a serious failure?
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Depends on serious.
A serious mast strike in some helicopters, auto rotation doesn't work after that.
There are problems with anything.
And the serious problems are always serious.
This particular aircraft does have wings, it should fall slower than human body otherwise would if something went wrong in horizontal flight.
The worst phase would be full engine failure right at transition from verticle to horizontal.
Which an engine failure on take off is still a way to die via conventional fixed wing aircraft.
The wheel of misfortune, listened to an older lecture on it.
Interestingly this design wasn't one of the categories.