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Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Commercial Drones

By Mike Ball / 14 Dec 2021

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Hybrid VTOL UAV

FIXAR has released a whitepaper that outlines how to evaluate the economic efficiency of different types of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for commercial applications. The whitepaper considers three different use cases, comparing FIXAR’s 007 fixed-wing VTOL UAV with a standard multirotor drone and taking into account a variety of factors such as endurance, operational costs and productivity.

The use cases detailed by the whitepaper include:

  • Aerial photography of a 60 square kilometre landscape
  • Long-distance linear infrastructure inspection
  • Drone-based delivery with payloads of up to 3 kg
Posted by Mike Ball Mike Ball is our resident technical editor here at Unmanned Systems Technology. Combining his passion for teaching, advanced engineering and all things unmanned, Mike keeps a watchful eye over everything related to the unmanned technical sector. With over 10 years’ experience in the unmanned field and a degree in engineering, Mike’s been heading up our technical team here for the last 8 years. Connect
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