New Cargo Drone Flies Like Nothing Else (Literally)

The Atlis cargo drone from Aergility uses a novel method of flight, described by its creators as “managed autorotation.” A VTOL platform, the Atlis takes off and lands vertically using six electric motors. However, once airborne, a gas-powered motor starts turning the aircraft’s main propeller and the vertical lift propellers continue to turn – not because they are receiving power from the batteries, but because of the air moving past them from the aircraft’s forward flight, a process known in aeronautics as autorotation. The aircraft can carry up to 600 pounds of payload more than 400 miles on a single tank of gas.

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