Comment by Mike R. on August 30, 2012 at 4:08pm

I call BS - As for what the website tries to make the company look like, it's a domain name that was registered a year ago, and their website is hosted with a consumer account at GoDaddy - Not exactly corporate quality stuff..

As for the wording on the site, it looks like complete smoke. Overly vague specs, and the video showing the vehicle states it can go 55mph, yet a close-up within the video shows little RC car parts - would never be stable at that speed..

But the most damning evidence is the domain registration info - hidden proxy domain registrant info, and the site is on a consumer hosting server (certain GoDaddy "domaincontrol.com" server ID's..)

Wim - domaincontrol.com isn't fake - it's a "make my registration private for only 9.95!" service from GoDaddy..

Comment by Mike R. on August 30, 2012 at 4:22pm

This gets better and better......

The address listed for the company on uniteddrones.com is a physical address for a handyman business in Naples, FL...

Doing ever so slightly more searching comes up with the fact that both the handyman business's website AND United Drones are hosted on the SAME ACCOUNT at GoDaddy..

United Drones website and Arrow Handyman Services are registered to the same person, but only Arrow Handyman Services actually has the address listed on United Drones' website.

The United Drones domain name was registered last September, Arrow Handyman this April..

Registrant:
Arrow Handyman

2254 Trade Center Way
Naples, Florida 34109
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ARROWHANDYMAN.COM
Created on: 18-Apr-12
Expires on: 18-Apr-13
Last Updated on: 18-Apr-12

Moderator Comment by Hai Tran on August 30, 2012 at 6:48pm

"4 to 8 hours depending on wind shear"

WTF has wind shear got to do with endurance of a rotary wing aircraft?

Wind shear is, a difference in wind at a different altitude, for example when you're coming in for a landing, have a 20kt headwind, set yourself up with 65kt airspeed, then all of a sudden as you descend the 20kt headwind is now  a 5kt tailwind, which means your indicated airspeed drops to 30kts, you stall and crash.

I can't see how wind shear will affect multicopter performance.  Maybe they meant wind speed instead of wind shear, maybe they meant 4 to 8 minutes rather than 4 - 8 hours?

Comment by Jeff Zika on August 30, 2012 at 10:22pm

50lbs lift capacity? 1.5m frame width? 100m range (with satellite, maybe???). Who are they kidding?

Now I've been designing multirotors for a while now and NOTHING with only 4 rotors is going to meet these specs. Law of diminishing returns...

Can anyone tell what motors are on the rig in the pics or are these just renderings? Anyone seen one in flight, a picture of one in flight, or better yet a video? Nothing comes up from a search.

Comment by Hein du Plessis on August 31, 2012 at 1:35am

If they got hold of the lithium batteries with the new graphene technology, 5 hours is nothing! Damn that's going to change everything..

Comment by Earl on September 1, 2012 at 11:03am

Obvious hoax.
Earl

Comment by Mike R. on September 1, 2012 at 12:34pm

lol they killed the product page referenced in this post, and magically the quad vanished completely from their site.. Now only the rover is on the site.. They must have looked at their page view log and knew something was up...

Comment by Mike R. on September 1, 2012 at 12:45pm

The quad is still on their product PDF - here is a screen cap of the motor for Jeff.. Pardon the rough capture - no photoshop on this pc..

Comment by Jeff Zika on September 1, 2012 at 1:06pm

Ok, these "look" like E-Flight 52. Even if they are as large as the 160 there is no way this thing is getting more than 20 min flight time (E-Flite Power 160, 10s4p6000, 20x6, 500g frame weight, 11kg GW) Other setups can get as much as 20kg GW with 20min flight times. But, this is no where near the 4 hours claimed, and the motors pictured are not P160s, P110s, etc. 

And who uses e-flite motors on Multirotors?

JDrones Comment by Jani Hirvinen on September 2, 2012 at 4:35am

I would not even put 3-blade props on quad copter if i want to have high efficiency. But maybe they have figured out some magical pandoras box that really increases flight dramatically like they say on their sales brochure :)

But yeah, let's first try to get that 1 hour flight time broken before looking 2hrs. And I am not talking any indoor hovering with ultra finetuned quad. I am talking normal outside flying on average day. 

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