Hi all!
It's been two years since we started with the HYBRiX development!!! Since some months ago we feel that development is finishing and that HYBRiX20 meets almost all the specifications that we said at the beginning.
There are a lot of challenges left to face but right now we have the feeling that HYBRiX20 is ready to do important things.
The problem i see is than this hybrid aircraft is currently doing flights very far from the potential.
We try to do flight hours but we are very small company and our ability are very limited and it is unrealistic that we spend hundreds or thousands of hours to simulate possible applications.
On the other hand our first customers usually are doing R&D projects or demos to their customes and in any case, they fly very few hours.
I see a big risk if we stall here. That is why I would like to find a few initial customers that have applications that perfectly fit the specifications of the hybrid and that need to do heavy work, I mean that they have to fly many hours a day for example.
--- What would be a good application to make hundreds or thousands hours to HYBRiX?
I would like to hear what applications you suggest for this platform!!!
As some of you already know we can fly between 2 and 3 hours according to the payload with a total of 5 liters of fuel.
Best regards,
Jose Luis Cortes
Quaternium
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Hello Jose, we fly geophysical surveys with a helicopter style drone. It's a 3.5 kg payload on a 20m tether. We operate in Northern Canada. Our last complete survey was 1100 kms. Let me know if you'd like to use our application for testing.
How much is this beastie?
Hello Eli, I am not an expert in marketing, I am the technical person.
I understand that the product has to fit the market but there are other considerations that I personally have very much in mind, and it is personal motivation, our product is SUPER-COOL and I think it has been very important for me and for my team, because we would not have made the effort we have made with a product that does not motivate us.
I will answer your questions as an exercise because it seem interesting to me. But tomorrow. it is very late here!
I am curious what requirements were used in the design of this aircraft? Was it based on market data for what people needed? Were there clients you initially had in mind? Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post but I would imagine that you would have a set of clients that this design would be vetted for when it was operational. I frequently see aircraft built to be "cool" rather than to be immediately useful to a group of operators. Were there people this was initially targeted at?
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