virtical arm effect prototype.
This is my attempt to try and assess what effect if any do vertical arms have on flight behavior.
So how to build a quad to test this. how to add enough surface area to the arms to cause a noticable effect. without changing the basic form and mass of the craft.
Problems with v arm quads are from what i have seen are weight , arm flex in yaw axis , motor mounting and motor wire routing.
So by building a box section as shown i can move the motors arround to suit and to make vertical arms just tape them up,
Instant vertical arms .
It looks flimsey and by bando bashing standards it is , but if your still reading i think you understand what it is about.
Fly it with the tape on then without . same quad no other variables .
Up date.
Flew it today with the tape on and smashed it to bits.
Well broke an arm or 2.
But before i killed it , it flew great.
Very stable , tracked like nothing else i have flown ,not windy today.
no funny yaw issues and in hard corners no prop wash , its like the fc has jot something to work against and your not dropping into a pile of turburlent air that the quad feels like its climbing out of.
propwash was induceable , but not bad when it did happen. ie dropping in from a loop and just letting it fall into the thrust coloum .
I suppose it felt a bit like i term wound right up but was not hard to push into moves.