Hey guys, this is Giovanni. We're at CD. We're going to talk to Eric again over at Stampede.
This time we're going to talk about some professional grade drones. Welcome to Geekbeat.
All right guys, so we're back here with Eric and now we're going to talk about some
some professional quality drones with some different uses. And first of all, we're going to talk
about the XFL. Tell me a little bit about what this drone specifically is for and what the what
kind of person would want to purchase this. So yeah, absolutely thanks. So this is an X-fold
mapper. The X-fold mapper is the really the bottom line of the commercial grade products for X-fold.
They have a mapper, a cinema, and a dragon. The dragon is actually twice as big as this one.
So it can lift up to 150 pounds. It's a big boy. But the mapper here was meant for doing 3D mapping,
a small DSLR, or as you can see, we just have a GoPro on there right now, but it can carry a
variety of elements based on the gimbals. And it can do that for 30 minutes. It has a flight.
So it has a flight time of 30 minutes. It is an X8 configuration, but with the X-fold,
with a very simple modification of the bolts, we can actually make this an X12 for added stability
and wins. You're not going to get any more, you know, flight time out of it, but you're going to
get added stability. But it'll give you added stability for wins. So fantastic configuration.
These guys were born out of the cinematography world. So the cinema version of this, which is
slightly bigger, can actually be used in Game of Thrones and has been used in a ton of movies
and can carry a red epic camera. So these guys came out of that world trying to use
cinna stars and stuff. And they didn't like what they were using, so they built and they designed
their own system. And we're really happy to be able to distribute these guys. This is just
expanding in the commercial grade. But this is really your first one. This comes with the PIX40
software as a 3D mapping software. So that's one of the benefits of this is that everything comes
as an OTC. So it's a $9,000 software package included in this. And what does this retail with?
This retails with everything. Batteries and the ground station and everything retails for $19.99.
And that's without camera, I would assume? That's without camera. So what cameras are compatible
with it? Anything. I mean, any kind of gimbal, it would just be the gimbal that needs to be put
on. They can create a custom gimbal. They've got a variety of those already set up for various
configurations. So it would just be focused on whatever the end user needed to do and wanted to
do. Okay. Tell me what this X plus one is. Yeah, so this one. I mean, you have to ask about this.
No, this is, this is, if you haven't seen this. I've never seen that in my life. Okay, this is
fantastic. So these guys actually, yeah, this is a great story. These guys, small startup out of
Northern Idaho, and they were raised $180,000 on Kickstarter last year to build this.
This is the production models. These are out now. They've delivered all of their Kickstarter stuff,
and we're now distributing for them. And this is just exciting. So this will do a horizontal,
or I'm sorry, a vertical takeoff and landing, and we'll transition into horizontal flight
and go up to 60 miles an hour. Wow. And the price point on this is at about $2,000.
And is this meant for cinema also or what's the use on that? So some fantastic elements. Obviously,
if you need to move and you need to follow something quickly, you've got the speed capability.
So law enforcement maybe or first responders? First responders getting out. Also precision
agriculture, if you're going to cover an area, you can cover an area. This can come off and you
put a gimbal on here. Okay. You can put a small camera. So a GoPro style thermal, something like
that on the top. But again, maybe bridge inspections because the GoPro's facing up. So you've got the
ability to do some all kinds of different infrastructure inspections and then again,
transition into horizontal flight. Very, very impressive. Just a fantastic capability. We're
super excited about this. We'll be flying it later in the cage. Oh, awesome. Not going to go
horizontal with it. And lastly, let's talk about the, let's walk around over here, Ken. This one
here is Vision Aerial. So they're a company out of Montana. And again, an excellent company. We've
really enjoyed working with them. They make the switchblade here. This one, I guess to claim it,
you know, it can carry a six pack of beer. So, so if you're talking about how you measure lift
capacity, you know, there's important, there's important elements there. So, but it's, it's
just a fantastic little, I mean, it's, it's well made. It's all made in the US. And, and really,
the lift and the movement is quite, quite good on it. Ken forward, you know, it's, the tricopter is,
is an interesting concept. And it is, you know, I would say that of all, if you were trying to move
from a DJI Phantom into flying this, you would definitely want to do a lot of simulator time.
Okay. And you'd want to, you'd want to make sure that you're, you know, this is going to be,
I think, moving up into the commercial grade. This is a, this is a challenging one to fly,
not to make it bad, but just, it's going to, it's going to be sporty. It's going to be fun.
You can really have some fun with this. So, is there anything in particular that,
that the configuration with, with having the tribe plays as opposed to the four, the 12 or the eight,
that that, does that give you any particular advantage over the other ones?
There is some advanced, I mean, I've seen some, some advances in lift, you know, I mean, with those
three blades, granted, they can be bigger and the footprint can be smaller, but you can get some good
movement going. I mean, it can, it gets up and goes and so you get some good forward speed
and, and then the lift capacity on it is very, very good. Awesome. So my assumption is on all
three, I mean, these are three completely different drones. I want to say quads, only one's a quad.
Completely different vehicles here. None of them I would assume are meant for the DJI kind of
enthusiasts. These are all commercial applications. Absolutely. I mean, the, I think the X plus one
could fit a very interesting category of, I've got an inspire, I've got a bunch and, and that's
just cool. Yeah. You know, they show a great video where they put it on a guy has a motorcycle
and they, they basically, he takes off and then he puts his control in his backpack and he takes
off his motorcycle and it follows him. So it transitions and you watch it as it's going and
then it transitions into. So this, this might be a dumb question. Stabilization and kind of being
able to view that video without getting nauseous, you know, is, I mean, does that have the capability
when it's flying vertically to hold a gimbal and have the gimbal function or? Yes. Oh, okay,
wow. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah. No, it's, it's, it's exciting. We've been running in with them at AUVSI
and the first flight for it in a cage was at Interdrone. We flew it at Interdrone with them
and we're going to be flying it here. So. Okay. So if anybody is interested in DJI and anything
else that's not DJI, where do they find you guys? It sounds like you guys would be great to go to
your platform agnostic. You'll tell people what they need based upon their use case. So where do
they find you? Sure. Yeah. Stampede. You can go to stampede the website and get hooked up there.
Drone Video Systems is another DroneVideoSystems.com where we can get information out there. We've
pulled together and like you said, we're platform agnostic in all of it. And so what we want to do
is pull together an entire solution because it's not just about the drone. It's about everything
else. You've got the add-ons. You've got command and control capabilities that you need to manage.
If you're going to get into the commercial world, we want to be able to have a solution and that's
what's been market leading for us. We've gotten tremendous response in the fact that we've pulled
all of these things together. We've connected the dots so that somebody can get into commercial
enterprise. They can get the pilot training they need through our partnership with Unmanned
Vehicle University and they can get the recommendations and the 333 exemptions through
our partnership with UA Solutions Group. And again, we look at the best in class companies
and we pull them together to provide that simple and easy solution to get into commercial operations.
Awesome. Thank you Eric. This has been Giovanni with Geekbeat at CDia talking about professional
quality drones. And now Ken, you need to take the camera and pan it up kind of artsy like
to end this episode. Pan it up. There you go. Thank you.
