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🚁 Rotorcraft on Mars and Titan Lab: Thin-Air Lift, Blade-Tip Mach and Power

Why a Mars helicopter must spin its rotors about eight times faster than on Earth: actuator-disc and blade-element theory, low-Reynolds-number blades, tip Mach limit, hover power and battery flight time on Earth, Mars and Titan.

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Why a Mars helicopter must spin its rotors about five to eight times faster than on Earth: actuator-disc and blade-element theory at low Reynolds number, the blade-tip Mach limit, hover power, payload and battery flight time for a generic coaxial rotorcraft on Earth, Mars and Titan, with a rotor-wake visualisation. Unlike the existing rescue-helicopter sims, it studies rotor aerodynamics in other atmospheres.

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