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Data from Bell UH-1Y guide, International Directory of Civil Aircraft General characteristics Crew: 2 (pilot and co-pilot) Capacity: 6,660 lb (3,021 kg) / up to ten crashworthy passenger seats equivalent cargo Length: 58 ft 4 in (17.78 m) Height: 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) Empty weight: 11,840 lb (5,371 kg) Max takeoff weight: 18,500 lb (8,391 kg) Powerplant: 2 × General Electric T700-GE-401C ...
Nitro helicopters have also been converted to electric power by commercial and homemade kits. The smallest remote-controlled production model helicopter made (Guinness World Records 2014) is the Silverlit Nano Falcon XS sold at many toy stores (although this is infrared controlled, not radio), electronics stores and internet stores, costing ...
The Firebee's main air launch platform is the Lockheed DC-130 drone controller aircraft, which can carry four drones on underwing pylons. The Firebee is typically snatched out of the air by a recovery aircraft that sweeps up the drone's parachute, simplifying recovery and reducing damage to the target from ground impact.
RCA radio controlled car. Dayton, Ohio, 1921. In 1904, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo was developing a radio-based control system he named Telekino.He chose to conduct an initial test in the form of a three-wheeled land vehicle (), which had an effective range of 20 to 30 meters, the first known example of an unmanned ground vehicle.
Smaller balsa kits will often come complete with the necessary parts for the primary purpose of non-flying modeling or rubber band flight. These kits will usually also come with conversion instructions to fly as glow (gas powered) or electric and can be flown free-flight or radio-controlled. Converting a kit requires additional and substitution ...
Launch unit for the Switchblade 300. Compressed air is used to expel the drone from the tube. The Switchblade uses the same Ground Control Station (GCS) as other AeroVironment UAVs, including the Wasp, RQ-11 Raven, and RQ-20 Puma. This creates a commonality and the potential for teaming of longer-endurance small UAVs to recon for targets, then ...
An optional cylinder head for the Venom became available for racers in 1964; [6] [7] a Venom equipped with this revised cylinder head took first in its class at that year's Thruxton 500, a 500-mile (800 km) endurance road race. Veloce introduced the Venom Thruxton production model in 1965 with an advertised 41 horsepower at the crankshaft.
The Velocette Venom was a 499 cc single-cylinder four-stroke British motorcycle made by Velocette at Hall Green in Birmingham. [3] A total of 5,721 machines were produced between 1955 and 1970. In 1961 a factory-prepared faired Velocette Venom and a team of riders set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph (161.01 km/h) at the ...