The Spinning Drone Paradox

On the video, at 8: 17, the drone flies in linear way (one of its 3 ways of flight), like a plane: it looks like the two inferior blades generate some lift while the becoming central blade works as a stabilizer, the propellers-motors becoming horizontal thrusters.

So an adaptation or use as a crosswind flygen AWES could be envisaged, leading also to an advantage for the potential of low radius turns by rotation. A flight combining crosswind and rotary modes could be achieved. VTOL is already there.

Assembly instructions are indicated.

I suggest to plan an AWES making on the basis of this rotor drone. The same AWES could be used according to its three flight modes: first VTOL mode (only the secondary rotors rotate, not the main rotor, and the generators are used as motors) for takeoff and landing; second operation mode as a rotary tilted AWES, for individual use (feeding @dougselsam 's house for example), or for reaching high altitude winds without undergoing excessive tether drag since the tether does not move; third operation mode as a crosswind tricopter (the blades are fixed and works as wings) kite to maximize the power of this envisaged AWES.

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