Building a heavy-lifting Drone: The story of Aerones
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Claims a heavy‑lift, tethered drone system that shifts from a 20 kg test prototype to a production cleaning platform, using 28 propellers and 16 batteries with dual flight computers for redundancy. Tests reach 50 m in Latvia and higher in Austria by pairing the drone with a high‑pressure pump for firefighting; the product becomes a trailerized, automated service rig for wind‑turbine de‑icing and coating application, with four patents filed.
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- 0:00Introduction and team background
- 2:09Building the first heavy-lift drone
- 4:14Discovering the firefighting drone opportunity
- 6:43Wind turbine cleaning market potential
- 9:12Early market skepticism and video breakthrough
- 10:38Developing the cleaning drone product
- 12:30Creating a complete service system
- 14:59Protecting innovation with patents
- 16:05Team passion and product vision
- 16:50Q&A session
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