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Rotor configuration
This may be a nitpick, but the pictures illustrating how a quad copter is controlled show the rotors as being located at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock while every one I have ever seen has two in front and two in back. I suppose that with sufficient skill you could fly a stock quad in this cross-shaped orientation, and it is in theory possible to make one in this manner, but I have never seen it. Wschart (talk) 13:28, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't consider this point nitpicking at all. In fact this is a question that really stumps me. The flight dynamics are shown with the front/back - left/right rotors, whereas the direction of flight is shown with two front and two back rotors. And this is an important point, because the flight controller must placed on the frame with the arrow facing in the direction of travel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.54.214.164 (talk) 10:28, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Drone with two rotor blades
The paragraph „Recent Developments“ provides a list with the most recent developments. In order to fully comply with the state of the art, I suggest to add the innovative configuration describing a drone with only two rotors. A link can be found here: https://www.heise.de/make/meldung/Copter-Prototyp-Zwei-Motoren-und-zwei-Rotorblaetter-reichen-3779859.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felixmwunner (talk • contribs) 13:07, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * By definition that is not a quadcopter, so is really outside the scope of this article. - Ahunt (talk) 13:25, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Quadcopters Go Inverted by Reversing Their Motors
[ https://hackaday.com/2013/11/26/quadcopters-go-inverted-by-reversing-their-motors/ ] --Guy Macon (talk) 00:09, 10 October 2018 (UTC)