ElevonX’s Tango VTOL has joined Ready to Fly’s fleet in Austria, equipped with a RIEGL VUX-120²³ LiDAR to deliver advanced aerial data for infrastructure, environmental, and urban development projects.
The Tango platform is designed to enable clients to select payloads of their choice, depending on mission requirements.
For Ready to Fly, the Tango VTOL UAV was equipped with a RIEGL VUX-120²³ LiDAR sensor for precision terrain mapping, along with an ILR-LR1 Sony camera.
This configuration will support advanced aerial data collection to generate base data for infrastructure design projects and detailed 3D terrain models for applications.
Before deployment, Ready to Fly’s pilots completed a training program in Slovenia before the aircraft headed to Austria to fulfil its missions.
Tango VTOL 3.0
The Tango VTOL offers vertical take-off and landing, so no runway is required. It supports long-endurance missions, allowing continuous aerial capture of up to 100km. The UAV has a payload capacity of 5–10 kg and flies autonomous, ensuring safe and reliable operations.
The integrated RIEGL VUX-120²³ UAV LiDAR sensor offers a wide field of view of 100 degrees and an extremely high pulse repetition rate of up to 2.4 MHz. Thus, it is perfectly suited for high point density corridor mapping applications.
The measuring beam of the sensor is consecutively emitted in three different directions: it alternates from strictly nadir, to +10 degrees forward, and to −10 degrees backward. This allows data acquisition with an unrivaled completeness in data capture, especially in challenging environments with vertical surfaces and narrow canyons.
The first deployments in Austria will focus on highway inspection and documentation, with further applications planned for terrain modeling, flood protection, forestry, urban planning, and energy projects.
This collaboration demonstrates how a proven UAV platform, equipped with payloads chosen by the operator, can deliver the reliable aerial data needed for complex infrastructure and environmental projects.
