You’re mixing things up. There are commercial toroidal propellers for boats, they have been in production for years, but cost $5000 each.
MIT recently developed toroidal propellers that they demonstrated with a quad rotor drone. No reason they couldn’t be scaled up to fit this. But the question is will they, not can they.
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You’re mixing things up. There are commercial toroidal propellers for boats, they have been in production for years, but cost $5000 each.
MIT recently developed toroidal propellers that they demonstrated with a quad rotor drone. No reason they couldn’t be scaled up to fit this. But the question is will they, not can they.