Summary
Powerplants: drones
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Steroids for drones.
Apart from the larger high altitude and long endurance drones that use turbojet engines 'borrowed' from existing classical aeroplanes, the tactical and medium-altitude types use either drone- specific or microlight aviation-derived powerplants.
********** The general starting rules to define the ideal engine in this context are lightness and compactness. Then other considerations like power/torque output can cut in, but maximum output should reach its peak at relatively low revolutions per minute, although this may depend on the diameter of the propeller used. Altho...See the full content of this document
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