I was just thinking about this earlier. Technically, helicopter comes from helico, meaning circular, and pter, meaning wing. So quadcopter should logically be “quadpter”
If you wanna be really technical about it, a quadcopter has four wings that move in circles, so that’d just be quad-helicopter, but that’s a huge mouthful.
I was just thinking about this earlier. Technically, helicopter comes from helico, meaning circular, and pter, meaning wing. So quadcopter should logically be “quadpter”
lol, that seems a little difficult to say
If you wanna be really technical about it, a quadcopter has four wings that move in circles, so that’d just be quad-helicopter, but that’s a huge mouthful.
Ehh, you could argue that quadcopter is an abbreviation of “quad-helicopter” (“four circular wings”).
Edit: I now see the other reply said effectively the same thing. Sorry!