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Compared to other unmanned electrical flying craft, would this type be more durable in non-stop flight conditions?

• tyingq 8y ago
  This would have to be pretty light given the low thrust, so durable isn't the first thing I think of. Or does durable have some special meaning with aircraft?
  • TremendousJudge 8y ago
    I just meant "being able to fly around without any maintenance being performed on it"
    • tyingq 8y ago
      Ahh, okay..."no moving parts". I get it now.
    • Junk_Collector 8y ago
      In theory. It could be made with no moving parts and steered via thrust vectoring by varying the location of the negative voltage. Lightweight high voltage equipment like that is very expensive to make at those reliability levels currently, but the idea of an operational window of a year+ doesn't seem like a pipe dream. We'll probably see applications in military intelligence (spying) and drug smuggling before other more civilian uses.
• erbium 8y ago
  Efficiency of this model is only 2.56%, so... probably not yet.