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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4-6 hours endurance rotary wing UAV... but fuel engine.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Indra_launches_UAV_market_growth_fo...
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.
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?
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..
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...
Earl
If they got hold of the lithium batteries with the new graphene technology, 5 hours is nothing! Damn that's going to change everything..
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.
"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?
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
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