When will someone come out with a gas/electric drone?

[mnoutdoors]

wouldnt it be nice if there was a little gas electric drone, that you fly for hours rather than minutes?

 

[wytnyt]

wouldnt it be nice if there was a little gas electric drone, that you fly for hours rather than minutes?

for a couple few million you can get a predator with a nice long range

 

[mnoutdoors]

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I guess there out there but man just a little loud!

 

[wytnyt]

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I guess there out there but man just a little loud!

not very fast for such high rpm's

 

[JMF]

You'd definitely lose the stealth advantage, lol.

 

[go fast]

I may be wrong but I believe gas were actually some of the first ones , I can remember several years ago our local police department experimenting with some gas drones they were big loud and clumsy looking...

 

[cheolk]

where you want to fly to?
Moon or Australia.

 

[Keule]

I guess there out there but man just a little loud!

Here's another one from the Quaternium guys demonstrating flying their HYBRiX.20 fuel-electric quadcopter 4hrs and 40 minutes ...

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[Kilrah]

There are quite a bunch already. They are never "little" though, that always straght shoots into 1+m, 15kg monsters.

 

[Whitwellian]

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I guess there out there but man just a little loud!

More than a little loud!!! I'm thankful that the dji drones aren't quite as noisy as that!