Prague Company Develops Long-Endurance UAV for Commercial Purposes
Long endurance is what separates a survey aircraft from a camera drone, and it is bought with wings rather than with batteries. A fixed wing holds itself up as it moves forward, so the engine only has to overcome drag; a multirotor spends its whole power budget simply staying in the air. That is why hours of flight and hundreds of kilometres of range belong to aeroplanes, and minutes belong to rotors.
The commercial cases follow from the endurance directly: a pipeline or a power line inspected in one pass instead of many, a coastline patrolled for a whole shift, a forest surveyed in a single flight. What the operator pays for it is a runway or a catapult and somewhere to land, a licensed pilot able to take control at any point of a pre-programmed plan, and a payload bay that has to be chosen before takeoff rather than swapped in the field. This page keeps the report as it was published on this domain.
Primoco UAV SE – based in Prague, Czech Republic – has developed a long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and is bringing it to the international market.
Suited for commercial applications, the aircraft can fly autonomously through pre-programmed flight plans and can also be controlled from the ground at any stage of the flight.
The UAV, with a maximum takeoff weight of 50 kg, offers up to eight hours of endurance, a 400+ km range and a cruising speed of 50-150 km/hour. It is also able to take off and land within a very short distance.
The company notes that each customer can equip the aircraft according to his or her particular flight purpose.
“We are able to supply almost unlimited combinations of technologies according to the needs of a customer,” explains Ladislav Semetkovský, CEO and founder of Primoco UAV SE.
The aircraft will be launched on the market in October, Primoco UAV says.
