Excluding crashing into other aircraft, the two most terrible things I worry about flying my drone are a) hurting someone with my four spinning blades of death and b) crashing because one of them hits something.
Reason A is any we can’t fly over people. A drone falling on someone’s head is in a separate category from this discussion, please.
So, it occurs to me that this needs to be addressed. Someone with greater knowledge in (and experience with) this topic please reply: why can’t the props be protected in some fashion that allows sufficient airflow but simultaneously prevents the blades from touching anything but air? Think: birdcage enclosure. Think further: the prop is inside a bird case donut and that is a unit and that removable unit is what we attach and detach from the motors.
If we can do this think of all the potential crashes and injuries we could prevent?
The material for the bird cage donut could be carbon fiber: ultra light & super strong (so the “wires” could be very thin).
Reason A is any we can’t fly over people. A drone falling on someone’s head is in a separate category from this discussion, please.
So, it occurs to me that this needs to be addressed. Someone with greater knowledge in (and experience with) this topic please reply: why can’t the props be protected in some fashion that allows sufficient airflow but simultaneously prevents the blades from touching anything but air? Think: birdcage enclosure. Think further: the prop is inside a bird case donut and that is a unit and that removable unit is what we attach and detach from the motors.
If we can do this think of all the potential crashes and injuries we could prevent?
The material for the bird cage donut could be carbon fiber: ultra light & super strong (so the “wires” could be very thin).