Hi all,
I just want to know your opinion about this page:
http://uniteddrones.com/products/aether-aero/
It says that their quadcopter can fly for 4-8 hours thanks to their propietary technology.
Anyone knows something about this? It it's possible?
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"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?
I really doubt that anyone can fly battery powered quad more than 1 hour. 30 minutes is already quite nice achievement. Yes I do know that MK and few other people have been flying 45 mins in tennishall without any winds and with ultra fine tuned quad. But in real world and real world application 30 mins is still goal to achieve.
Fuel cels and others are not provide enough power yet to run quads, solar power neither. Mini nuke plants maybe but those are not so mini yet :)
they don't even have to bother building a fake model, it can be done with a 3D rendering program
10 orders of magnitude? I think that might put them at an energy density close to an anti-matter reaction?
There have been numerous discoveries over the past 10+ years about the manufacturing method for LiPo batts, off the top of my head one of the more exciting ones stated the battery will have capacity of 10 orders of magnitude over current LiPo batt densities, and the ability to discharge at something like 400C, and charge rates were equally impressive, the research even pointed out that re tooling current manufacturers making LiPo to be able to make the improved versions would be minimal, the technology was using carbon nanotubes to increase the surface area and the capacity.
They said they expected to see the first commercial versions being produced 5 years hence, which was about 7 years ago. Sad.
This is really the last hurdle for electric helis, as they seem to be much superior to the IC helis, and able to deliver the power more efficiently etc.
I rate its powered by Tiberium!
I wonder if this company just used smoke and mirrors to convince the republicans it was real, got a big check, and plan to fake the whole deployment...
The 41/2-foot-wide Aether Aero, which resembles a small helicopter, can fly up
to 4,000 feet high and, with a specially built battery, can operate up to four
hours at a time, Winter said. It is equipped with a 109x optical zoom camera,
can lift up to 50 pounds and is so light it can be picked up with two fingers,
according to Chris Knott, United Drones' director of corporate development.
Honestly, if someone did discover such a battery, why would it first be seen on the market inside a drone at a convention? There area so many other legitimate uses for such an advanced technology.
I'm not normally the type of person that spouts government conspiracy around every corner, but this sure sounds suspiciously like lies to try to scare the general public...
Oh, the time is currently 2:35CST on the 29th of August, and the united drones page that was linked to is blank, looks like it might have been removed? The news article is still good.
It's undoubtedly powered by a Zero-Point Module (ZPM).
If you look closely at this picture from their website, you can see that the vehicle is branded as WASP, not "Aether-Aero." Makes me wonder if the guy just found some pictures of a quad online, posted them along with some outrageous made-up specs, and conned his local newspaper into giving him free publicity. If so, people are downright crazy.
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