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06.01.2018

The technologies used in the creation of unmanned aerial vehicles, multicopters, devices with multiple rotors, are becoming more perfect literally every day. These craft are getting bigger batteries and smarter power distribution systems, so they can stay in the air for longer.

Drone company Quaternium has demonstrated a new hybrid model HYBRiX.20. And this device managed to stay in the air for four hours and forty minutes, thereby setting a world record for the duration of a multicopter flight.

Most multicopter devices that you can buy in the nearest store or on the Internet are able to stay in the air for no more than 25-30 minutes at a time. Professional and custom-made aircraft have large energy reserves, for example, last year such a multicopter crossed the English Channel after being in the air for 72 minutes. However, there are other companies in the world, for example, Skyfront, whose devices can also be in the air for about four hours.

The official world record for the duration of a flight, registered in the Guinness Book of World Records, until recently was two hours, six minutes and seven seconds. Naturally, this record has been beaten more than once for a long time, but members of the Guinness Committee were not present at these events. However, Quaternium decided to do the right thing by capturing the flight of their drone on video, which is enough for a world record to be recognized.

Note that the HYBRiX.20 drone is a hybrid model with a gasoline internal combustion engine that starts when the energy in the batteries of the device comes to an end. Such a system is ideal for areas that require a long stay of the device in the air, for mapping, aerial photography, observation and control of crops.

“The low cost of the HYBRiX.20 drone makes it affordable even for ordinary farmers,” Quaternium writes, “And every additional hour in the air means less need for refueling / recharging, less manual labor and, as a result, higher profitability of use apparatus".

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