Roger Powers and his team at Flint Hills Solutions shows us round their workshop where they are building affordable unmanned aircraft. The small Kansas company hit the news recently with a deal with the City of Eldorado.
The Flint Hills unmanned aircraft can fit on top of a desk; it’s the future in the first step to helping law enforcement with public safety and recovery efforts. “Small states can not afford to buy a multi million dollar system but the can afford to buy a fraction of that cost that has the same capability,” says Roger Powers.
It looks like a helicopter and uses a GPS tracking device and auto pilot system that can be programmed to fly. “Hit a button, launch now and it will automatically take off for six hours,” says Powers. Many cameras used on the aircraft are bought at Best Buy. “That’s keeping your cost down. Its five-hundred dollars versus forty thousand dollars,” says Powers.
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