Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years
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Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years
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#3What an unbelievably shitty website.
Here's a link to the video. Had to youtube it because that site kept on causing my browser to crash.
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#4What an unbelievably shitty website. Here's a link to the video. Had to youtube it because that site kept on causing my browser to crash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkmZxRTQWk
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#5How will the drones handle bad weather if they're continuously operational? They're not really quick so they can't outrun all kinds of weather.
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#6So this looks pretty cool, and their marketing department already coined the term "atmospheric orbit", but their aircraft currently looks like vaporware. All of their videos are pre-rendered and the short clip in the article is too [0] small to be the aircraft they are trying to sell.
It also raises some flags when their quotes are from Senators and their "social proof" logos aren't customers they are supplies of the components they are using.
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#7How will the drones handle bad weather if they're continuously operational? They're not really quick so they can't outrun all kinds of weather.
Is there much weather at 65000 ft?
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#8I assume the video at the top is of a smaller prototype?
Making something that flies on solar power is not that hard, but I wonder how they are going to deal with mechanical and electronic failures.
On the timescale of years, something will break or crash, or suffer from PEBCAK
"you’re paying some dude to watch the payload and make sure the aircraft doesn’t do anything stupid.”
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#9How will the drones handle bad weather if they're continuously operational? They're not really quick so they can't outrun all kinds of weather.
Is there much weather at 65000 ft?
At that height you can see the curvature of the Earth. For perspective here is a picture:
http://imgur.com/I5qQA3D EDIT:
Fair point. The max height on cumulonimbus clouds are 60,000 feet[0]. Effectively there is zero weather.
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#10Must be Birds vs. Drones day on HN:
http://cl.ly/image/3F0v1f2l3j0Z