Rotorcraft RPM on Mars
arXiv:2105.00797 · doi:10.1119/10.0006112
Abstract
The Ingenuity helicopter test flights on Mars in April 2021 marked the first time a powered aircraft has flown on another world. Students who have access to model helicopters and drones may wonder, how well could those hover on the Red Planet? The answer can be found in this journal [The Physics Teacher], using appropriate scaling of the surface gravity and atmospheric density to Martian values.
This Letter to the Editor has been submitted to The Physics Teacher. After it is published, it will be found at https://aapt.scitation.org/journal/pte