We have featured lot of drones and UAV’s here on DamnGeeky and joining the long list of future unmanned aerial vehicles is this Microdrones md4-3000, which rises to an astonishing height of 4000 meters. Quite capable of carrying payload of 3 kilograms; the drone measures 2.05 meters in length, is 1.9 meters wide and spans to a height of 36 centimeters. Since it is aerodynamically designed, it can take off with a maximum weight of 15 kg by creating lift just like the wing of an aircraft and then carry on for a distance of 50 kms with the service life of 45 minutes in one go. Microdrones md4-3000 can reach a speed of 58 kilometers per hour due to its light weight carbon fiber body make and can be operated remotely or with waypoints through the GPS module. For optimum power four rotors are used each having three layered leaves providing the lift and the energy to propel it forward.
mdBlackBox provides access to all the flight data needed to operate the drone safely courtesy the sis-axis sensor. To take on the extreme temperature variations at such operating heights md4-3000 is capable of smooth operation in temperature variation range of -10/+50 degree Celsius and is quite unperturbed by rain, snow or dust.
The German drone project is a part of the solar research center Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA) in southern Spain where it was used for inspecting the solar panels.
Via: Microdrones/Golem
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