THE UAV - FLYING SAUCER

The main objective of the development of the UAV Eyesfly is to provide a machine, able to function in the public domain in total security. As none of the machine’s elements must represent a risk, the machine was equipped with a totally protecting cover, which gives to it appearance of a small flying saucer.

Totally protecting cover

The ability to totally cover the machine is a direct consequence of the choice of the inverted rotary structure. The UAV Eyesfly is compact, so it is easy to totally wrap it in a protecting grid network.

Light and solid at the same time, this structure with a form of flying saucer represents next advantages:

A reliable and safe flying saucer

The use of a totally protecting cover allows to protect the environment from the danger coming from rotating blades; so, it is possible to go very close to the target without any risk.
And vice versa, this network grid protects the machine from its environment: nothing can damage the rotors, not even fine structures, invisible for the board electronics (cables, twigs, etc.).

A dynamic and solidly built flying saucer

The protection network grid, unlike a full fairing, doesn’t alter the machine’s carrying capacity. In that way the machine keeps all its robustness and its behavior is by no means made heavier, in contrast with its competitors faired “in hard”.

Furthermore, the UAV Eyesfly’s cover has an excellent aerodynamic lenticular form. If the client’s needs go in the same direction, the network grid can be completed by an auto floating fairing in order to increase the autonomy.

Finally, same as for a flying saucer, this network grid can serve for landing in uneven areas. There is no risk to damage the client’s payload because of a sharp maneuver.

A communicative flying saucer

As noticed the company Thalès in its research on this subject, the protecting network grid can in certain conditions serve as a communication antenna. It is interesting especially in the case where the distances separating the UAV and its base are significant.

Finally, as for a flying saucer, the UAV Eyesfly’s protecting cover can serve as a support to a great number of measuring devices and tools: position lights, sensors, cameras, microphones or even bionic arms can be fixed on the network grid in order to expand the machine’s working area.