Y-5U unmanned transport has successfully conducted its maiden flight. The flight took place in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia and lasted 13 minutes, during which the aircraft flew for 36km and reached an altitude of 720m.
T40,WOW,The T40 was a machine three years ago, and the new T100 with more than three times the load capacity has just been launched. Regarding agricultural aircraft, DJI has no time to pay attention to its American opponents. Its biggest enemy is XAG Technology from Guangzhou.
I think DJI would do well to design a fully automated base station for these large scale agriculture drones, since payload refill and recharge remains a manual task that requires substantial human interaction. A drone that will automatically swap between fertilizer, insecticide and herbicides and spray automatically will sell like hotcakes.
No. Farmers don’t need the drones 365 days a year. They don’t even need to own them because owning doesn’t make business sense. There are companies that go around to provide drones services.
They don't, but eventually with a big enough operation you'll have drones working year round just from the sheer amount of fields to cover.
The farming drones have flight time of 10-20 minutes. They have to take off next to the field they are working on. Are you gonna build a base station for every field and place a drone inside? Does that make business sense?
The drone is far more limited by payload rather than battery life, it will empty it's tank far before it's battery runs out. The DJI T50 have a operational radius of 2 KM, that's already 1200 hectares of farmland in a radius around, there are at least two more classes the T70 and T100 where range will only increase.
Geez, the drones don’t fly in a circle. They go back and forth on the fields.
The operational radius is simply a suggestion on how far the drone would reasonably operate. Not how it actually flies in practice.
