T-Works, the Telangana government’s premier prototyping centre, has now successfully built and tested an autonomous hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle that can travel up to a distance of 45 km.
The model designed, developed and tested by T-Works can launch itself like a conventional drone and then fly forward like a conventional winged aircraft before making a landing vertically. Covering a distance of 45 km, it travelled for 33 minutes.
The airframe and its components were designed and fabricated using software design tools, 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC routing machines currently available at the Phase-0 facility in Begumpet, Hyderabad.
