{"id":74727,"date":"2017-12-28T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/record-breaking-hybrid-drone-stays-aloft-for-over-four-hours"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:09:01","slug":"record-breaking-hybrid-drone-stays-aloft-for-over-four-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/record-breaking-hybrid-drone-stays-aloft-for-over-four-hours","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking hybrid drone stays aloft for over four hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNYcjFF4OwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drone technology is getting better all the time, and one area folks are putting a lot of energy into is boosting the amount of time the things can stay in the air. Drone manufacturer Quaternium is claiming a new milestone in this field, after flying its HYBRiX.20 fuel-electric quadcopter for four hours and forty minutes in what it describes as a world record flight for a self-powered multicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Most multicopter drones you can buy off the shelf boast flight times of 25 to 30 minutes, though we have seen custom-built multicopters fly for far longer. Last year, for example, a commercial drone operator used a bespoke quadcopter to <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/drone-flight-english-channel\/41970\/\" target=\"_blank\">cross the English channel<\/a> in a 72-minute jaunt, while others such as dronemaker Skyfront have previously claimed endurance records well in excess of four hours.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/quaternium-record-endurance-drone-flight\/52758\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/quaternium-record-endurance-drone-flight\/52758\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone technology is getting better all the time, and one area folks are putting a lot of energy into is boosting the amount of time the things can stay in the air. Drone manufacturer Quaternium is claiming a new milestone in this field, after flying its HYBRiX.20 fuel-electric quadcopter for four hours and forty minutes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74860,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74727\/revisions\/74860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}