Hybrid Electric Power Makes Drones Fly Farther

Credit: Top Flight Technologies
Battery capacity severely limits the performance of multirotor small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), which dominate the commercial drone market because of their ease of deployment and use. A new generation of drones is now becoming available, with hybrid gasoline-electric propulsion providing...

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