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Hi Peter, Nacelles can take two forms really. If you have a plain tube, you get protection and cooling benefits. However, if you look at the nacelle around a jet engine, you'll see that the front "lip" is an aerofoil shape - it has the effect of pulling in a lot more air for the same, in our...

CheshireCat: Right now, I'm not too sure - I don't think either are out of the question. We do know we have no plans for AP, FPV, stunt flying etc. We're really interested in the type of stuff that Rafello d'Andrea showed on the TEDtalk - it's what made us think about multi's initially -...

Hi, Many thanks for the replies so far. Really appreciate the input. Carapau - seperating ducted fans from nacelles - a well designed nacelle can be brought in pretty light - for 8 inch props to do all four I would guess around 150g - 200g. You can have a fair bit of seperation between the...

Hello all. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place - I couldn't see a place for it to go. Some friends and I are planning to design and build a multicopter from the ground up. We're heading down the route of full computer control, rather than R/C control - it's the nerdy software development...