{"id":99182,"date":"2019-11-30T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/jet-powered-vtol-drone-is-like-a-quadcopter-on-steroids"},"modified":"2019-11-30T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:02:37","slug":"jet-powered-vtol-drone-is-like-a-quadcopter-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/jet-powered-vtol-drone-is-like-a-quadcopter-on-steroids","title":{"rendered":"Jet-powered VTOL drone is like a quadcopter on steroids"},"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\/LHwW-XYdKtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While propeller planes certainly do have their place, sometimes the extra speed and thrust of a jet engine is what\u2019s really needed. Dallas, Texas-based FusionFlight has applied that sort of thinking to quadcopter-style drones, resulting in the AB5 JetQuad.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the AB5 is \u201cthe world\u2019s smallest and most powerful jet-powered drone with vertical take-off and landing [VTOL] capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the usual four electric motors and propellers, the current prototype has four diesel-powered microturbine jet engines which produce a combined 200 horsepower (149 kW) at full throttle. Thanks to a proprietary vectoring system known as the H-Configuration, the thrust from these engines can be directed either to move the drone vertically when taking off and landing, or horizontally while in flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While propeller planes certainly do have their place, sometimes the extra speed and thrust of a jet engine is what\u2019s really needed. Dallas, Texas-based FusionFlight has applied that sort of thinking to quadcopter-style drones, resulting in the AB5 JetQuad. According to the company, the AB5 is \u201cthe world\u2019s smallest and most powerful jet-powered drone with [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99182","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=99182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}