I am trying to find out if its possible to configure an aircraft to be a cross between a helicopter and plane. I would want to in essence mount a standard helicopter frame inside an airframe of a plane and use it to takeoff/land/hover, while still having a traditional forward thrust motor to use the aircraft like a plane for cruise. Is this currently possible? Thank you
Have you seen the ardupilot documentation? Theres a couple ways to achieve this:
https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/servo-functions.html#setup-of-specific-aircraft-types
Check out the quadplane, tiltrotor and/or the tailsitter configurations