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I've got the spec on this...too big and heavy for the drone, BUT...can have 4 smaller alloy pairs made for under £2,000. Long belts from the central single motor are not a problem 👍

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I'm going to use the star and 4 planetary gears from a differential so I can have the four drive pulleys all the same level.

So horiontal bevelled star gear, driving the four smaller gears, driving the four gearboxes, then out to the propellor shafts via belts, or maybe shafts.
 
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Jon Dough said:
It might surprise you Jeffers, but I have been to that beach 😂 baler Bay on Luzon,it doesn't exactly look like that nowadays, but yeah, we can blast out Ride of the valkyries to herald the attack and strike fear into hopalong Alan's heart (I would have preferred a nocturnal HALO jump myself but you obviously have experience) 😲
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Nowt surprises me about you now.
Gelan said:
I've got the spec on this...too big and heavy for the drone, BUT...can have 4 smaller alloy pairs made for under £2,000. Long belts from the central single motor are not a problem 👍

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I'm going to use the star and 4 planetary gears from a differential so I can have the four drive pulleys all the same level.

So horiontal bevelled star gear, driving the four smaller gears, driving the four gearboxes, then out to the propellor shafts via belts, or maybe shafts.
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It’s like the wright brothers
 
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Big Jeff said:
batteries man they are crap

we can go to the moon but cannot make a decent battery
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If you angled all propellors 15 degrees inwards and kept the height down to a few metres, you could use the wasted up draft from the ground to turn an impellor that in turn drove an alternator. You can do this experiment with two cheapo battery fans angled down to the point of deflection, with one powered and the other acting as a generator.

Post thrust energy.

I hate waste :D
 
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Gelan said:
If you angled all propellors 15 degrees inwards and kept the height down to a few metres, you could use the wasted up draft from the ground to turn an impellor that in turn drove an alternator. You can do this experiment with two cheapo battery fans angled down to the point of deflection, with one powered and the other acting as a generator.

I hate waste :D
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Stop wasting time on here and get our drone built.

I have bought a crash helmet and ordered some goggles, @Jon Dough will already have some so once you get it going we are ready.
 
Jon Dough said:
Stop it Jeff, stop it, rules and laws are incorporated with a certain degree of flexibility built in, that's why you can bend them a little.

Front mounted 8 cannon..303's you have salvaged from a downed spitfire?
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Don't tempt me man...already working on a centrifugal catapult powered from the flywheel.
 
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