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How to make a good helicopter & how to fly it

3,126 ArcturusAerospace  5.0 years ago

I have trouble building helicopters that fly, and I find them hard to control. The only type of helicopter that I can (somehow) coax into the air is one with a coaxial rotor system, because all the others go into a tailspin. The CoM & CoT are equal on all my helis. How do I fix this (and how can I learn to fly them properly)?

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    @ArcturusAerospace oof

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    @Noname918181 Ooooohhh. So that's why my helis always flip backwards.

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    @ArcturusAerospace
    vertical/horizontal stabilizers are important to keep stability on the yaw and pitch axis

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    @Noname918181 This post wasn't about a specific one, but I only use cosmetic wings if any.

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    @ArcturusAerospace also, do you have vertical/horizontal stabilizers on your heli?

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    @Noname918181 Maybe that would work.

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    @ArcturusAerospace maybe use a gyro?
    Idk

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    @Noname918181
    For the first:
    Oh.
    For the second:
    That's what I'm doing, but it is hard to control.

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    Second, you need to turn reverse rotation on one of the rotors if your doing a coaxial

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    First of all, CoM must be aligned or as close to the main rotor, not the CoT

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