MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time.
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2017
- Last month, a team of MIT engineers launched Jungle Hawk Owl from the back of a compact car. It was the first flight for the 24-foot-wide drone, which the team believes is capable of staying in the air for five days on a single tank of gas.
The craft was designed to address a challenge posed by the U.S. Air Force. The teams were asked to design a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) powered by solar energy that was able to stay in the air over long periods. The idea was to design a vehicle that could help deliver communications to areas impacted by natural disasters or other emergencies. Weather balloons have traditionally been the choice, but they drift with the wind and often don’t stay in the air long enough to be really effective.
Several teams at MIT’s Beaver Works lab got to work on the problem, soon abandoning the solar option. According to team co-lead, Professor Warren Hoburg, current solar technologies would require a much larger drone with a much larger surface area for panels, coupled with a large, heavy battery. Solar also runs into issues during the winter months and at latitudes far from the equator because of shortened daylight hours.
“It’s true that it’s less appealing to be running on gasoline [than solar],” he tells TechCrunch. “But building the solar airplane would be a big boondoggle. With the design we chose, we’ve already had a first flight. It was easy to build compared to the other aircraft available, and the cost and fuel consumption are really low. We spent more fuel getting to the launch site than flying the airplane for three days.”
The winning team designed a prototype of the drone using GPkit, a Python-based modeling tool designed by Hoburg. The final design was built out of lightweight materials like carbon fiber and Kevlar, weighing a total of 55 pounds (closer to 150 with payload and a tank full of gas). The parts can be easily dissembled and shipped to affected areas and the payload is the perfect size for carrying a shoebox-sized communication device designed by MIT’s Lincoln Labs, which helped support the project.
In addition to supporting areas in the wake of a disaster, the team believes the drone could go a ways toward helping tech companies like Google and Facebook achieve their longstanding (and in one case recently abandoned) dream of delivering internet access to rural areas. But there’s still a lot of work to be done, and the school is working with the FAA for permission to keep the drone in the air for the full five days as it continues its testing over the summer.
Six years of MIT to build a model airplane....nice going boys. You're on to something. Maybe you can figure out a way to toast bread next.
Not possible. Toasted bread would be useful.
FIVE DAYS
@@EaseTheMomentusing your brain might be useful not sure if u figured that out by now 😬
You are the reason why the shampoo has instructions for use. 💁♂
You tricked me i thought the car was going to fly
your dumb lol
@@Dogman21 no u
@Bradley Dunagan no u
@@am0804 no you
@@hezekiahabadi2461 no me
I don't get what is supposed to be so amazing about this. They built a large scale gas power rc plane that can follow waypoints. This has already been done by multiple hobbyist. I think it makes it even sadder that it took an entire MIT team to build what one person has already achieved.
It's probably the work of just 1 guy while all others participated for just the name.
Brain ?
5 days, now you get it
Exactly
5 days of endurance is a long time dude.
It’s just content so we sit around on UA-cam longer
That’s what we’re doing here: slowly being drained of our life
Love their support of not scratching the plan 1:34
Nice! Keep it up!
I am not so dissapointed by my local engineering college after seeing this video
why its mit , there are countries that couldnt do this
@@sharpe227 Doubtable
Yeah! I can build a flying fuel tank too, but MINE will fly for a whole WEEK !!!
Where’s MY parade ? 🤣
Well did they go on to pull off the 5 day flight or not?
Well this is my speculation I bet they have a formula on how long it flew to see if It can fly for five days straight.
nice landing!
Great job people!
I’m very confused why this project took so many people when my neighbors gas powered drone seems to fly for hours and hours and it’s just him. I’m just saying that from my comfortable armchair mind you.
*MONEY - LAUNDERING*
That thing probably has more subsystems than your neighbour's drone. And it's designed from the ground up, maybe to provide an opportunity for as many students as possible to get some credits out of their participation in the project.
@@AgeofReason interesting 🤔
5 days endurance is better than most military drones.
Jungle Hawk Owl...
Name needs some work guys.
If what you want is maximum loiter time, wouldn't a lighter-than-air craft (dirigible/blimp) with steering engines be a lot better? Make it electric, or a gas/electric hybrid, and throw some solar panels on the sides/top to further extend operating range.
No. Wish it were. Five days is a long LONG time for any aircraft be it LTA or HTA. A mild but steady breeze can kill an airship's duration as it battles to stay on station. Tethered aerostat possibly, but "emergency" and "national disaster" are design requirements. Hauling all the paraphernalia for an aerostat to the site, preparing a launch and retrieve "pad," inflation, rigging, inspection, etc... would probably kill the mission. Solar panels on a blimp are problematic and don't provide enough power. Storage batteries are heavy. Search HALE-D, solar power high altitude. It malfunctioned on launch and crashed.
--Airships are giant fragile things best flown in idyllic weather over stadiums and golf courses with nearby ready airfields.
Do we really want a other explosion? This is much more dense and contained, a lot safer too
There are tons of RC planes that are solar powered and can fly indefinitely... and those are projects people have built in the garage with no education.
winters, clouds, rain, fog, bad weather :)
Brain ?
This is NOT RC but an unmanned autonomous vehicle!!!!
It was programmed to fly thru different waypoints and lands by itself.
I wonder what type of 6HP Gas engine they use???
Its still just a giant rc plane with a gas engine. People have already been building waypoint guided autonomous drones and planes for quite some time now with just off the shelf parts. There are even some solar powered ones with insane flight times. All of these have been done by hobbyist in their basements.
How tall was that guy running back to the tent at 3:09?!
Yo mine can stay up for five years yo ! One upper !
GREAT JOB
Please provide me the steps by steps design
put the MIT tag and a nice music ... and say at the end amazing ..WTH is amazing about it
E = mc^2
Run a two cycle for hours easy. Conserve energy for take off. What was your radio tech?
So you made a glider and put an engine on it...
No landing gear?
This is going to be immediately used for warefare
Those are some tiny fuckin wheels
Now where are the blue collar lab assistants that actually laid up that carbon fiber?
I don't get it..
Says in the description this would be to deliver signal to an area effected by disaster. Previous method is with weather balloons which tend to drift out of area. So is the alternative to have to have this plane do circles for days at a time. You would think this would be the dream job of a quad copter which already employs a lock on positioning.
And so much quieter. I'm sure a big enough drone would be able to hover for 24 hours in one position and come down once daily for a battery change.
And furthermore mit couldn't strap 3 wheels to that thing??
Will you please guide me towards that 24 hour drone
An link or something
MIT Rules!
2nd paragraph of the bio says it needed to be solar powered! This plane doesn't appear to meet that design specification? Or am I missing something....
MONEY laundering lies
Damn it I thought I was going to get to see a flying Mazda 3
So now that we are In 2021 what become of this. You only flew this for a few minutes not 5 days
I thought it was gonna be a quad bro
This is something I would expect from a high school class. This is a loud reciprocating engine powered rc with a drone control to follow way points and hopefully auto land but maybe it was human controlled. But it had to be launched from a car? Load a glider with a small engine and a ton of fuel and you could have some long fly times. For what? The useful payload would be rather insignificant and delivery would be slow. Would it be used as a cell tower or just recon.
You're an very intelligent person
I'm in awe :)
THAT WAS JUST ABOVE 3 MINUTES..
HOW DO YOU FIGURE 5 DAYS
those shoes at 1:34 :))
sounds like a v1 rocket
What is it that’s so special about this drone, Is it the fuel type?
5 days
Me so excited my drone i built passed 40mins lmao haha
Its no secret that a glider can have a 50:1 glide ratio. Pop in a small motor, and tons of fuel, problem solved! There are so many things they can improve on. This has been already accomplished, and for a much longer duration by a few particular people. ;)
Yes, this does not look as well made as Vanilla VA001.
But did they name it Droney McDroneface?
Amazing stiff wing, no apparent flex in it. However gasoline powered RC gliders are not cutting edge in any way and have existed since WW2!
Not with internet
@@eksine so it took them six years to add internet to it?
@@cvspvr what are you talkin about? He said gas RC planes have existed since world war 2, I said not with internet. I have no idea what you're talkin about 6 years
@@eksine mit took six years to build this plane
@@cvspvr I still don't get your point. No other rc plane has a wireless router or repeater in it. Whatever cool statement you're trying to make lost its impact
How many grenades can carry it 🤔.?
5 days in the air??
Nice job! Now have someone smart enough to edit video trim 35 seconds of black at the end ...
Are those Nike or adidas boots? :D
Full team of MIT dorks waist their time building a large scale rc airplane with an oversized gas tank to "expand internet" while the real Top G just remakes the internet in space..
MIT stands for men in tights.
Filmed with DJI Mavic Pro ---- actual drone :)
Props are for girls.
I have an idea that supersedes this design. What if the ability to remain airborne was limited only by the durability of it components?
Video ends at 3:12.
Misleading title
Wouldn't a long, narrow hydrogen-filled blimp with a tiny 2-stroke liquid fuel engine to hold against the wind be better for long-duration station-keeping? Even better, an electric motor powered by a microwave beam from the ground. With a small tank of hydrogen to replace leaked gas, it could stay up for months!
a blimp needs quite a lot of power to fight wind, its not viable to do more than just basic stabilization on a flight path predetermined by the wind
Such celebration for a gas-powered, radio-controlled craft? I am confused. Why are they so happy? These are MIT engineers, after all. You'd think it was some next-level form of propulsion, or something outlandishly advanced which they were so enthused about.
So it is not solar... And it is not ground breaking... A small scale helium blimp with light weight solar panels would do the same at 1/10 the cost and would be more suitable. Great job MIT...
I BOUGHT ONE JUST LIKE THIS ( AT PIGGLY WIGGLY ) !
why not put propulsion on the balloon? Electrics that you would only need to use for course correction.
try hydrogen and you would achieve way more.
Sounds like a bunch of farts
Can afford to build a massive 24 foot wide drone.... Can't afford to record it for 5 days to prove it is real.
People make claims about everything... you can't say you have done something without proving it... just because the US AIR FORCE is developing the technology does not mean these MIT engineers have cracked it, that is a foolish idea to think "Oh these lone engineers did what the UNITED STATES AIR FORCE" cant yet...
and as i have said if they can't afford to prove it lasts for 5 days at a time then there is nothing revolutionary YOU DOLT.
Just remember, the USAF is a governmental entity, which means that it's run by idiots by definition.
Turboprop?
SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS!
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Bit confused! Unless the term solar powered has been redefined, this isn't a solar powered UAV? Surely anyone with any sense would just laugh at such an abysmal failure.
Has anyone told the children that the military are coming to dinner, because they are the only ones who will pour money on these things? Disaster areas? Nobody funds disaster relief equipment unless they are investing in future profit. Now you all DO know.
Real and Heterosexual!
that is not a drone
That's a plane not a drone.
I don't see any pilot, do you see mate ?
@@user-ur5yg3cx8t years ago when in school we used to make plane models. There was no pilot and everybody called them planes.
Why make it gas? Cant this be achieve with electric?
Yes, but without batteries.
So fishy u fooled us car will fly
When your green engineering team all came from Woohoo university
Glorified RC plane flies from a moving car. Woohooo!
Soldered a capacitor to the board. Woohooo!
Strips insulation from a wire. Woohooo!
Installs a brand new spark plug Woohooo!
Gets wrench from the toolbox. Woohooo!
Scratches itchy butt. Woohooo!
Saws a wooden board. Woohooo!
Drinks coffee. Woohooo!
Pricks a pimple. Woohooo!
Finished screwing down a panel. Woohooo!
Connects a couple of electrical terminals. Woohooo!
Every single insignificant action of the day. Woohooo! Typical greenies. 😅🤣🤣
MIT?? Really? I think many keen RC Pilots that build there own aircraft could build this and perhaps do a better job. I am disappointed.