Let's see it on a vacuum chamber on earth. GRanted we have more gravity as the story goes, but my money says it wouldn't be able to take off at 3psi. How does such a light machine achieve that kind of rotation?
Honestly at mars pressure, at mars pressure I don't think it would take off even if the blades went 100 times faster.
The helicopter is 4 pounds. The rotors move at 2600 RPM and the tips hit Mach 0.7. Mars is also only .38g. It works out.
Let's see it on a vacuum chamber on earth. GRanted we have more gravity as the story goes, but my money says it wouldn't be able to take off at 3psi. How does such a light machine achieve that kind of rotation?
Honestly at mars pressure, at mars pressure I don't think it would take off even if the blades went 100 times faster.
I bet you they tested it there, yeah.
You realize hard drives can spin at 15,000 RPM, right?