Weird Planes from Another Moonlet

[SPACE-MAN]

 

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Does anyone know WHY the propellers stop making thrust if you rotate them 90 Kerbgrees?

 

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Edited March 9, 2020 by SPACE-MAN

[Pds314]

If props are rotated to 90 degrees, then presumably their AOA is either 0 or 90, neither of which will create any lift. Unless I misunderstand what you're saying.

[SPACE-MAN]

@Pds314 Hmm. It's strange because for some crafts the rotating props work amazingly, such as the craft which I have as the cover picture for this post. Rotating the props offers an equal thrust in all directions, on the ground and in flight.

I don't rotate the blade pitch, the fans are on pitching servos controlled by the up/down fine control keys.

However, some craft, like the large helicopter thing that looks like a Chinook's crack baby, pivoting the props (not the blades, the electric motors are on servos, I use the I&K keys to change the servo pitch) causes the propellers to lose all thrust. 

You can see in some of the pictures that the fan shrouds of the cover photo craft are pitched forwards, that craft works fine. Using the aerodynamic overlay, I can see some craft stop making big purple arrows when I rotate the servos to the forward position. Weirdness.

Edited March 17, 2020 by SPACE-MAN
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