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/ (http://ocuair.co.uk/news-blog/)
Pretty much your everyday ordinary cheap setup then !
:P
Yeah! Everyone's got one. Haven't you?
Quotesingle 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.. :)
6s 22A x 2 ... ouch, at what weight do you start to see diminishing returns from duration over weight?
I actually thought that as well Steve. .. all the endurance multis I have seen are using li-on.
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 :
Watch them forget to disable the Geofence :)
Seems like they've actually succeeded.
As regards the World record for the longest drone flight, I think that may be in dispute.
Blimey - that thing flies bl*ody fast !!
;D
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.
What was the flight time? Do we know?
Keukpa
Quote from: keukpa on February 22, 2016, 05:28:57 PM
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
Might as well have just run a tether and done it that way. Same difference if you are gonna have a chase boat :)
It annoyed me they claimed a world record.... and told the CEO of the company that as well....
Hurumpff :busted:
Quote from: Gundummy on February 22, 2016, 08:07:25 PM
It annoyed me they claimed a world record.... and told the CEO of the company that as well....
Hurumpff :busted:
I wondered about that too because claiming a record and actually having that record recognised are not the same. If there was no sort of World record body (eg Guinness World Records) to verify the claim then it remains just a claim and no more.
In a previous life I worked for a company that claimed, in print on the press release, a UK first for a particular project. Some short time later we had a call from an agent representing the company which had actually built the first UK example so the claims had to be removed from any subsequent blurb. The sad truth is that if such claims are not legitimately challenged they tend to become accepted as fact. Just ask a patriotic Frenchman who achieved the first heavier than air powered flight and you probably won't get an answer with Wright in it.
I think I saw something in some of their press blurb that they had an official there with a clipboard. Not that impressive to me from a technical standpoint. They've bought some COTS multicopters and strapped a load of lipos on. Most impressive is organising the paperwork at either end. And getting as much publicity as they have!
Quote from: dogzilla on February 22, 2016, 07:36:18 PM
Might as well have just run a tether and done it that way. Same difference if you are gonna have a chase boat :)
Hell yeah! FPV is the only way for this! :)
Apparently the trip took 72 minutes.