I brought Parrot's water dragon drones "Hydrofoil" to the waterside and tried running it in Switzerland

Mini drones "Jumping" and "Airborne" that can carry and fly even in the dark with LED lightsParrot that line up drone products such as "Dragon", "Dragon on the sky", "Dragon on the land" followed by "Dragon on the water"Hydrofoil(Hydrofoil) "is appearing. I was able to borrow the real machine of Hydrofoil that I can run the water freely with the power of the quad-cotter type drones "Airborne", so I actually ran in the pond nearby.

Hydrofoil Drone
http://www.parrot.com/jp/products/hydrofoil-drone/

Hydrofoil's body (hull) looks something like this. It is a three-hull ship with small hulls on the left and right of the big hull in the center, and two further front and one back foil (underwater wing) are attached. And, on the ship's body, the drone Airborne is sitting up as if it had been there from the beginning.


Hydrofoil has two colors of white and black lineup, with the name "New Z" for white and the name "Orak" for black. In addition, the drone body can be removed from the ship and blown by itself.


So, the movie below looks like you actually ran the water surface. As you rotate the rotor of the drones, the arm stands up as "bumpy", you can see how to go forward by kicking the air. Also, as the speed increases the appearance that the aircraft lifts about 5 cm is exactly what can be called a "hydrofoil ship".

I tried Parrot's Mini Drones "Hydrofoil" Swiss I - YouTube


Hydrofoil floats on the surface of the water. I felt a little scared to put the drone with the battery on the water, but as soon as the hull made of Styrofoam floats properly, worry is resolved.


For Hydrofoil's maneuvering, like the company's other products, the smartphone application "FreeFlight 3" (Android version·IOS version) Is used. When turning on Hydrofoil and launching the application with the smart phone Bluetooth on, it will automatically recognize and connect, so there is little need for difficult operation. When the application recognizes the airframe, first select the type of airframe. This time I will steer the Hydrofoil with the hull, so tap the icon on the right.


This is the only setting completed. Two controllers, accelerator opening (left) and right and left turning (right), are displayed on the control screen, basically it is a simple way of steering using only these two.


When I touched "Take off" on the application screen, the arm with the drone went up and the hull started to advance forward. Even if you do not change the accelerator pedal position, the hull will advance slowly in this state, so it is recommended that you concentrate only on the left and right movement at the beginning and become accustomed to maneuvering. As you get used to maneuvering, you gradually increase the speed, you can enjoy a refreshing run quite easily.


When the speed goes up the hull rises and the resistance of the water decreases so further speed gets on. The maximum speed is about 10 km / h, which is not as fast as being surprised, but it seems to be said that it is just right speed to slide pleasantly over the water.


Because there are hulls on the left and right, the hull does not tilt even if turning at high speed. I tried to operate it a couple of times quickly, but it is safe that there is no danger of an important drone getting submerged.


The first operation sense of embarrassed to not accustomed also grasp the feeling that was completely able to your stuff while playing about 15 minutes. As of drones that fly through the air, always there is no feeling that the propeller is flying around, also can rest in a state in which the floating sound of smth. Floating if necessary, be that led to the margin of feelings.


If you are getting in tune and speeding up, you also accidentally pierced the land operation. Nevertheless thanks to the lightweight fuselage, there was no such thing as the fuselage being broken, so it seems to be said that it is a point that you can sneak out playfully. In addition, although it is time to play with the attached battery fully charged, this is difficult to say unequivocally because it depends on the time you actually moved the propeller, but it is sensuously about 15 to 20 minutes It was place.


To be honest, until I tried actually running this Hydrofoil on the water I thought secretly in the back of my heart that "it is interesting to sky the sky ... so it's a drone ...." I found myself who realized the unique pleasure on the water. There is a feeling of exhilaration that makes a sound like "Queen" with sweeping waves on the surface of the water, and there is no sense of exhilaration, and I feel that the speed which is not too fast also leads to "a feeling of enjoyable affair" did.

It was fun to run alone with a sweet by only one review this time, but actually it seems that it may be a race to do more than two vessels to enjoy Hydrofoil more. Imagining a scene that finds a gentle stream of riverside and a small pond, setting a course and enjoying a race with friends with friends, I noticed myself feeling somewhere in my heart getting boiled up .

Parrot's hybrid water robot hybrid robot "Hydrofoil" is on sale at Apple stores, Amazon, consumer electronics retail stores, etc. at a price of 21,800 yen (tax excluded). At the time of article creation, Amazon was able to purchase it for about 4,200 yen off.

Parrot Mini Drones Hydrofoil Water Sky Dual Robot New Z (White) 【Japanese Genuine】 _ Parrot _ Mail Order _ Amazon | Amazon


In addition, since the image movie created by Parrot has also been released, it is also necessary to check here.

Parrot Minidrones - Hydrofoil - YouTube