Cross Channel by quadcopter. What would Bleriot make of it?

[electrotor]

That's a lot of water.  :o

Ocuair's RPAS Enduro 1 Specification

Rotor Span 1760mm
Overall Diameter 1180mm
Length 870mm
Command Frequency 2.4 GHz
Motor Type Brushless electric 86.8 x 26.5 mm 135kv
Battery Type 2 x 6S 22000mAh 22.2V
Propeller 27 x 8.2 inch
MTOM 8.2kg
Operational Ceiling 5000 ft AGL
Operational Endurance 95 mins
Max airspeed 35 kts
Temp range -5 to +50C
Max wind speed 10 kts
Flight Controller DJI Naza M V2 Autopilot
Aircraft Receiver Jeti REX 12 – RSAT Duplex System
Ground Controller Jeti DC-16
Ground Station Controller DJI Data Link
Ground Station Panasonic Toughbook CF19

http://ocuair.co.uk/news-blog/

[wgt40w]

Pretty much your everyday ordinary cheap setup then !

                             :P

[Western]

Yeah! Everyone's got one. Haven't you?

[Gundummy]

 

single flight of 34km!  This is also the longest single flight of a quad-copter in the World!

I think not me old chumlies. ....no where near.. :)

[FPVSteve]

6s 22A x 2 ... ouch, at what weight do you start to see diminishing returns from duration over weight?

[Gundummy]

I actually thought that as well Steve. .. all the endurance multis I have seen are using li-on.

[dogzilla]

Putting a load of battery on an air frame and then following it with a chase boat just doesn't get me excited at all! Especially for what is basically a marketing spend.

This is the current record as far as I'm aware, 43km total distance covered :

[Coyote]

Watch them forget to disable the Geofence :)

[electrotor]

Seems like they've actually succeeded.
As regards the World record for the longest drone flight, I think that may be in dispute.

[wgt40w]

Blimey - that thing flies bl*ody fast !!

                     ;D

[FPVSteve]

Yea.... it's almost as if they did back of the napkin calculations and just chucked lipos at it until they were sure it had enough duration, not really a huge achievement (apart from the crossing the channel bit) but it wouldn't be as impressive if they flew it over land. Meh.

[keukpa]

What was the flight time? Do we know?

Keukpa

[electrotor]

What was the flight time? Do we know?

Keukpa

It was scheduled to take about 69 minutes apparently. Not 68, and not 70, but 69.  :D

[dogzilla]

Might as well have just run a tether and done it that way. Same difference if you are gonna have a chase boat :)

[Gundummy]

It annoyed me they claimed a world record.... and told the CEO of the company that as well....

Hurumpff  :busted: