I installed one of the the most popular racing drone motor on the tail of a helicopter for IOT/MQTT/COAP research to see what would happen. It cruised for 35 minutes straight, breaking the world record of any commercial platform of 250 grams by 50+% extra mission time! The fuselage is Blade Fusion 180s body; the main motor size is 2806 of utility inspector drones. The main rotor is built from 180-250 sized helicopter parts. The flight computer is taken from the famous real estate video shooting drone HGHGLRC Sector25cr (250 grams). The tail motor are taken from the popular racing quadcopter HGLRC Petrel 120x, which promoted 6-Li-ion-batbattery-in-series for tiny drone racing. Is it nice if highways are patrolled by camera drones to broadcast the video of traffic accidents, and an AI server phones motorists to get out of the road at the immediate exit before lining up in a traffic jam?
The part listing is in the following table. A shipping discount for multiple items from a vendor has been applied. No volume discounts are used.
The Horizon components are priced the same on eBay and Amazon both with free shipping, as shown in the eBay and Amazon checkouts.
The entire craft can be built without a machine shop and hence can be repaired by professionals in a car. Only light hand tools and light electric tools powered by car batteries are needed. This creates jobs.
