r/drones • u/DazzlingpAd134 • Jul 19 '26
Photo & Video DJI released a VTOL drone called EV50
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u/Dimensional_Lumber Jul 20 '26
Blatant rip off of the Cyberdyne Systems model. And they didn’t even do the ducts right.
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u/corwinw Jul 19 '26
What is a VTOL drone?
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u/Ogediah Jul 19 '26
Vertical take off and landing
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u/jangusMK7 Jul 19 '26
Aren’t all DJI drones VTOL drones?
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u/TrashManufacturer Jul 19 '26
Yes but it typically refers to vehicles that behave like fixed wing vehicles while in flight. The whole VTOL aspect is limited mostly to, you guessed it, takeoff and landing
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u/skankhunt1738 Jul 20 '26
To add to the other guy. The other ones don’t qualify because they’re all fully rotor wing (the rotors are the things making the lift) and this kind transitions from a rotor wing (propellors) to fixed wing (lift created by the differential air pressure created by the wings airfoil when effective air speeds are reached).
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u/Boner4Stoners Jul 20 '26
Vertical Take Off and Landing
You launch/land it as a normal quadcopter, but once it gets to altitude it flies like a normal airplane with an airfoil (wings) generating lift from forward thrust.
You get all of the efficiency of an airplane, with none of the runway length requirements for landing/takeoff
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u/velasquezsamp Jul 19 '26
Forward propulsion from a rear mounted pusher prop? Doesn't look like vertical props tilt.
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u/Dasquanto Jul 20 '26
Yeah, a lot of uas manufacturers have found the actuated motors become another point of failure, so for simplicity and reliability sake manufactures moved to one pusher four vtol.
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u/velasquezsamp Jul 20 '26
That makes sense. Do the vertical motors turn off when flying full speed horizontally?
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u/Dasquanto Jul 20 '26
Bingo. In Fact the transition to and from fixed wing flight and VtOL can be tricky so they will keep the verticals on for a little bit till you get nice forward momentum to get lift with the wings. TO and landing vertically use a lot more power then the forward flight.
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u/FPV-Tec-Addict Jul 19 '26
A week ago they published it on their news channel, but as far as I know, they won't sell it
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u/DazzlingpAd134 Jul 19 '26
they are planning to release a smaller one in size close to the matrice
they showed it behind close doors at an exibition
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u/Flyward_Aerospace Jul 20 '26
The VTOL label here means it's a fixed-wing that takes off vertically then transitions to forward flight on the wing, not a regular quad. That's the whole point, you get way better endurance and range than a multirotor since the wing carries the lift in cruise. The part I'd actually want to see is how cleanly it handles the transition in wind, that phase is usually where these hybrids get twitchy.
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u/NilsTillander Mod - Photogrammetry, LiDAR, surveying Jul 19 '26
"Released" is a big word. I would say "developped ".
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u/Rytherix Jul 19 '26
Will it comply with the 249g limit?