
FoA 352: Autonomous Electric Crop Dusters with Michael Norcia of Pyka
Future of Agriculture
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How Do You Decide How Big Your Aircraft Should Be?
There's a regulatory cliff around 1320 pounds. We figure there was a good chance that some of that would transfer down into the big commercial drone world. The other one is that we wanted the aircraft to be trailerable and really easy to assemble with two people without any ground support equipment. So those are a lot of the factors. I wouldn't be shocked if in five years we'll be flying something close to an air tractor, four or two.
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