Conducts World Record Flight In Spain

Six years ago, Quaternium startup, made a revolutionary breakthrough developing the first hybrid fuel-electric drone ever. This drone was inspired by hybrid cars from the automotive industry. In 2015 the company made a disruptive flight of 3 hours and 10 minutes with their multirotor HYBRiX, besting all previous flight-time records. Since then, the achievements of hybrid drones have not stopped growing.

The company's HYBRiX UAV recently set another endurance record with a flight of 8 hours and 10 minutes non-stop. All this, with an experimental version of their new drone HYBRiX 2.1, of 25 kg MTOW.

HYBRiX UAV took off at 08:52 am in Valencia, Spain, and landed at 17:02 pm. Performing a stationary flight of 490 minutes. With this breakthrough, Quaternium set the New World Record of Endurance with the longest hybrid-drone flight on Earth. HYBRiX´s flight in Spain lasted nearly one hour more than the previous flight record, from Richen Power.

Most multicopter drones in the market offer flight times ranging from 25 to 40 minutes, forcing the pilot to carry multiple batteries to the field while losing most of their time charging them. Compare this tedious work with just spending the whole time flying and getting all the information you need. With this game-changing innovation, it is possible.

HYBRiX project is supported by the European Union through their innovation program Horizon 2020, which fosters disruptive projects in innovation, excellent science and industrial leadership. The project has also received multiple Awards by institutions such as AUVSI, CDTI, or the Spanish Government.

Thanks to this advantage in flight time, Quaternium says the HYBRiX is the ideal aircraft for aerial missions such as Surveillance or First Response. In every emergency situation, when time runs against the clock and lives are on the line, a long-endurance drone is a strong ally.

(Image provided with Quaternium news release)

FMI: www.quaternium.com