Historical Archives, Part 22 - The largest Romanian drone taxis for the first time

February 14, 2014 - The AirStrato, High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Drone, Prototype 1, during taxiing tests at ArcaSpace.

The drone was extremely advanced for its time and even by today's standards, featuring:

- satellite connectivity for flight control and telemetry in real time with algorithms to compensate for network delays;

- redundant 500km range radio flight control and telemetry;

- automatic navigation;

- high speed, wide band, data link between drones;

- 4k 500mbps resolution gimbal stabilised camera pods;

- HD, IRST gimbal stabilised cameras;

- real time satellite video broadcast;

- virtually unlimited airborne capabilities due to its solar cells and batteries needed to power the electric motors.

The footage was filmed with a Canon 5D II and HF200 in full HD. The full HD footage was upscaled to 4K.

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