Comments on: Latitude Engineering’s Hybrid Quadrotor UAV https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/latitude-engineerings-hybrid-quadrotor-uav/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/latitude-engineerings-hybrid-quadrotor-uav/comment-page-1/#comment-943319 Isegoria Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:50:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32566#comment-943319 A power cord hooked up to an offboard power source — batteries or a generator — could serve the purpose of a catapult and reduce the need for batteries.

Also, an onboard generator could harness the gas engine for take-off and landing — but that wouldn’t have the same useful redundancy that Bob pointed out.

]]> By: Alex J. https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/latitude-engineerings-hybrid-quadrotor-uav/comment-page-1/#comment-943288 Alex J. Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:53:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32566#comment-943288 It could drop the spent batteries after takeoff: BATO.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/latitude-engineerings-hybrid-quadrotor-uav/comment-page-1/#comment-943219 Bob Sykes Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:02:58 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32566#comment-943219 So, we have to shoot out both the gas motor and the batteries to bring this thing down?

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