c_mitra
Advanced Member level 6
A one-prop drone? I once imagined I could make a simple one-man helicopter. I would attach a propeller to a motor, hold it over my head, and rise into the air. Just 10 or 20 feet high because of the power cord. As I dreamed, however, I realized that the propeller would spin in one direction, and I would spin in the opposite direction. No go.
Many earlier toy helicopters had this problem. I suggest the original poster to try a simple experiment: fit a motor with a propeller and hang it carefully with a thin thread and power it and observe the dynamics. This is as good an experiment in a proper wind tunnel.
But I would guess that you would rotate in the same sense as the props; just like the body of the helicopter.
Helicopter is more than a motor with a propeller.