#AUTEL DRONE X STAR PROFESSIONAL#
The professional looking dome camera articulates for the best view, particularly handy when you’re zipping by at up to eighty miles per hour. Minimizing air drag and reducing battery consumption to get you upwards of two hours of flight time. The nose cone is modular, allowing you to affix different camera modules and more. In particular, the rear propellers stop turning and fold backward, or upward, depending on how you look at it. The unique thing here is that the propellers are not always running. These propellers articulate, able to shoot straight up for vertical take-off like a drone, then they turn forward and back to propel the craft horizontally. Propellers are mounted on each airplane-style wing, one up front, one out the back on small ‘engine’ mounds. Kestrel combines more than a few concepts into one, creating a craft that, to my mind, can do it all. Kestrel is the larger of the two, and at the time, the only of the two ready to actually fly. These large, fixed wing craft with huge camera domes up front captured my attention, to say the least. It’s possible I took more photos of the machines for my own use than anything. When we met up with Autel Robotics at CES 2017 they had two prominent pieces in their booth, both VTOL craft, one of which being the Kestrel. Basically, we’re talking about airplanes that can hover. Logic says that all quadcopters are VTOL craft, but the acronym applies generally to fixed wing type craft that have vertical take-off capability. I’m sure you’re familiar with this already, but just in case, VTOL stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing. The quadcopters can be equipped with numerous cameras to fly for fun or for detailed and close up inspection of towers, bridges and more. Their VTOL and fixed wing craft travel at high speeds to cover ground. More if you count drones not for sale in stores.Īs mentioned, Autel drones best support commercial and professional operations, we speak of things like crop and pipeline inspection, mostly. A decent 4K camera, folding design, good flight time, and solid connectivity.Ĭonsidering that Autel Robotics promotes as having just two drones on the market today, we’re going to be generous and say there are three.
#AUTEL DRONE X STAR SERIES#
The Autel Robotics EVO was an exciting drone at launch, delivering what most would consider to be the best competition to the DJI Mavic series at the time. This is, perhaps, the only consumer drone brand that can say this, whether it matters to you or not. One thing is certain, however, buying one of their flying machines keeps an American employed. It’s up to you to determine if this makes Autel Robotics drones locally made or not.
Your contact with Autel Robotics will be in the U.S., but your actual drone will be manufactured in China.
This parent company makes automotive diagnostic tools. They are, technically, a Chinese company, as they are owned by Autel Intelligent Technology in China. Many of our readers will be happy to know that Autel Robotics operates out of Washington State.
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