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An aircraft using a vertically mounted rotor to stay in the air, giving it the ability to hoover in contrast to a plane.

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Does Ingenuity rotate via differential rotor speeds or differential angles of attack?

Hackaday has a well-written article describing nicely the control system for Ingenuity. Another way in which Ingenuity differs from terrestrial multicopters is in the flight control systems. Where mo …
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How does Ingenuity measure its altitude when flying?

Cheers erupted 12 minutes later among Ingenuity’s small team of engineers and scientists when confirmation of a successful flight came, first from a laser altimeter showing that the helicopter had risen … Our technology — LIDAR-Lite v3 — will be measuring the distance from the helicopter to the ground. …
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