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Oliver Seeler Posted at 2016-12-8 16:08
I have extensive experience with carbon and composite props. Shorter flight times have never been a problem for me, to the contrary, I think an advantage for carbon is the rigidity so the blade retains its airfoil shape throughout different flight maneuvers, especially aggressive ones. That depends on the shape being correct in the first place for the application, it would be from that, I think, that shorter flight times would come. But that rigidity can also make flight choppier, like stiff suspension on a car. A lot of factors are involved. And as stated CF is strong but fragile at the same time, and it also is more razor-like generally which can be scary. Also more prone to "hanger rash." Overall, one has to try out any prop change and see how it goes, either yourself or from reports of others. Most of the time, a quality builder will be using good props for an aircraft and second-guessing that may be interesting but not often really productive. At the moment, early on, I am not feeling any need for different blades for the Mavic.
Spot on description ! To add to this, the choice of carbon props are REALLY important, and typically 1/2 - 1 inch pitch less than its plastic brother, plastic props do have a tendancy to flatten out slightly in flight, i have flown many many multirotors with plastic and carbon, and carbon wins hands down on flight performance, typically quality carbon props are ever so slightly thinner in section and more effective and efficient than plastic, getting a quality carbon prop like the T Motor/ Foxtech supreme to mount on a mavic will be a whole new story ! there are carbon foldables (vertical folding) but i am not sure if they would be any advantage, horizontal foldables are not widely available yet either, after inspecting the mavic props it may pay to stick with plastic stock ones for now until someone gets the prop profile, airfoil section, pitch and mounting right |
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