Posted by Keith Ratliff on October 26, 2008 at 9:51am
We don't know much about the range of the smaller UAV's out there but we just got our first range numbers back. We are looking at a 150 miles combat radius with 20% fuel reserve. What has been the combat range of other UAV's with the capability of carrying a FLIR camera system and live video ability? We are using commercial equipment for the camera and video link to make it easy to produce in quantity. One major design change has been the power plant. We are still going gas but we have chosen a smaller 30CC engine and bumped the wing span up 11.35 inches from 105 to 116.35 and we did a major rework on the fuselage to allow more loading if needed and more speed from the about of power.
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