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Old 26th Feb 2021, 09:48
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netstruggler
 
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Originally Posted by Agile
ok many questions:
How does the aircraft structure can receive the load at the those 4 points? (the place where the 4 cables seem to attach on the picture above)
With he force of the load not being vectored to a point close bellow the main transmission as the aircraft bank, wouldn't the aircraft be unstable?
I guess they could manage the length of each cable dynamically to stabilise the load - probably no harder than controlling a quad-copter - reliability might be an issue though.

Managing yaw would be more tricky
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