Gas Powered Drones

lowbudgetjunk · Sep 14, 2015

When are these guys gonna get their **** together and make some good ol fashioned gasoline powered machines?

I wanted to buy a multirotor and haven't done it specifically because of the flight time. I figured Busted and the Ram11 would have great use for a drone that could fly around for hours on end. Twenty minutes seems like too much work for not enough results.

TBItoy · Sep 14, 2015

You would have to have a fuel tank on the ground and a fuel line tethered up to it to get any kind of flight time.

Plus who wants to listen to a weedeater motor run a full blast for hours on end?

lowbudgetjunk · Sep 14, 2015

TBItoy said:
You would have to have a fuel tank on the ground and a fuel line tethered up to it to get any kind of flight time.

Plus who wants to listen to a weedeater motor run a full blast for hours on end?

This guy.....

Twenty minutes of flight time just seems so short plus the charge time. And thats on the high side.

85toyo · Sep 15, 2015

Do the electric ones not have an external battery pack that can be swapped?

TBItoy · Sep 15, 2015

85toyo said:
Do the electric ones not have an external battery pack that can be swapped?

Yes, but you have to land them to swap the packs... so it's not "continuous" flight

Beerj · Sep 15, 2015

They should put a solar panel on them. Maybe get a few more minutes out of it.

J/Cope79 · Sep 15, 2015

Fly a drone over my house and flight time wont be an issue anymore.

85toyo · Sep 15, 2015

TBItoy said:
Yes, but you have to land them to swap the packs... so it's not "continuous" flight

Got ya. When Kel mentioned the charge time I thought they might have been built in. Swapping batteries every 20 minutes doesn't seem like a huge deal to me but I also don't make videos.

lowbudgetjunk · Sep 15, 2015

J/Cope79 said:
Fly a drone over my house and flight time wont be an issue anymore.

I don't have your address or I would ;D :stir:

J/Cope79 · Sep 15, 2015

nothing to see at my place :drinkers:

kushKrawlin · Sep 15, 2015

lowbudgetjunk said:
When are these guys gonna get their **** together and make some good ol fashioned gasoline powered machines?

I wanted to buy a multirotor and haven't done it specifically because of the flight time. I figured Busted and the Ram11 would have great use for a drone that could fly around for hours on end. Twenty minutes seems like too much work for not enough results.

Kel shhhh. Go get a gas Rc then a Electricin one. And report back on what u did with the gas one.. Boooooooooo. They suck man.

kushKrawlin · Sep 15, 2015

J/Cope79 said:
Fly a drone over my house and flight time wont be an issue anymore.

Hahaha! My boy says the same thing. "If a drone flys over my house I'm getting the 12 ga out!" Haha. He ain't playin. Funny

motobrad22 · Sep 22, 2015

Re:

I got a cheap little drone, I was going to wire up 3 batteries in parallel, each 1250mA batteries gives about 10 mins of flight time, so I could get up to 30 mins of flight time.