{"id":9753,"date":"2019-01-26T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/26\/code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:11:05","slug":"code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/newsletters\/unmanned-systems\/2019\/01\/26\/code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Code helps hybrid quadcopter navigate high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An endurance flight is a fight against gravity, wind, human limitations, and fuel capacity. The HQ drone series, designed by Latitude Engineering, set a record for longest flight by a vertical takeoff or landing aircraft in 2016, staying in air for more than 22 hours. The technology that enabled that flight, the unique combination of airframe and software, was granted a patent on Dec. 25, just in time for the HQ\u2019s systems new owners, L3 Technologies, to start floating the hybrid quadcopter as the right vehicle for the Army\u2019s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rough concept and early prototypes of the HQ drone series have been around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2013-08\/ten-strange-drones-ausvi?image=2#page-4\" target=_blank>since at least 2013<\/a>. Combining the VTOL capabilities of a quadcopter with the flight efficiency of a fixed-wing plane, the craft relies on four rotors on booms to get the plane up and down, while a pusher prop and traditional wings carry it through the sky normally. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/drone-sets-record-for-longest-flight-time-by-vtol-aircraft\" target=_blank>record-setting flight<\/a> in 2016 was performed by the HQ-60 model of the drone, and demonstrated at the time before an audience consisting of military and public safety professionals, including Special Operations Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of what likely makes the Hybrid Quadcopter so adept at staying airborne is the software balancing its two flight modes. Rotorcraft prefer to tilt forward for extra forward momentum, but that\u2019s counterproductive with fixed wings, since it changes the angle of the wings and increases drag while losing lift. So it\u2019s the software\u2019s ability to manage the dual-modes of the craft that\u2019s at the heart of this patent, enabling normal flight, vertical flight, and hovering, especially in high winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s that ability to operate in high winds that L3 expresses as the key component of <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&#038;r=1&#038;p=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;d=PTXT&#038;S1=10162367&#038;OS=10162367&#038;RS=10162367\" target=_blank>the patent<\/a>, and likely the feature it will use to distinguish this specific brand of fixed-wing\/quadcopter hybrid from the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical takeoff and landing drone wants to land in Army&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":111,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"10":{"categories":["unmanned-systems","newsletters","unmanned"],"primary_category":"unmanned-systems"}}},"categories":[106,29,32,21,111],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3021],"class_list":["post-9753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-newsletters","category-unmanned","category-unmanned-systems"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"Z4DTCWQ4LBA43JBWPENS3X2WAM","arc_canonical_url":"\/newsletters\/unmanned-systems\/2019\/01\/26\/code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Code helps hybrid quadcopter navigate high winds - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vertical takeoff and landing drone wants to land in Army&#039;s lap.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/newsletters\/unmanned-systems\/2019\/01\/26\/code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Code helps hybrid quadcopter navigate high winds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vertical takeoff and landing drone wants to land in Army&#039;s lap.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/newsletters\/unmanned-systems\/2019\/01\/26\/code-helps-hybrid-quadcopter-navigate-high-winds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-26T00:55:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T17:11:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kelsey D. 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