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Drone manufacturer Parrot has released the Bebop 2 – a light robust and stable video drone.
Accessories include Parrot Cockpit glasses, which utilises the user’s smartphone and plunges the pilot into the heart of the action by live streaming the footage captured via its Full HD frontal camera. It then displays the telemetric flight data.
The camera’s 14 megapixel “fish-eye lens” is a front facing camera that is digitally stabilised on three-axis thanks to powerful algorithms. Images are claimed to be bright, stable and with no distortion.
The unit’s four three-blade propellers are powered by brushless outrunner engines and offer manoeuvrability during high-speed flights. It can achieve bursts of speed of 60 km/h horizontally and 21 km/h vertically and resists head winds up to 63 km/h.
It reaches its maximum speed in 14 seconds and brakes in 4.5 seconds. It reaches an attitude of 100 metres in less than 20 seconds. Its glass fibre reinforced (20 percent) PA12 chassis and its shockproof feet ensure high robustness of the structure, says Parrot. Bebop 2 is piloted via the new FreeFlight Pro app for smartphones and tablets, as well as with the new Parrot Skycontroller 2 remote control.
Safety of flight is addressed with an emergency cut-out feature of the engines, emergency cut-out feature of the propellers in case of contact, limitation of the altitude and of the flying perimeter, as well as an automatic return home feature.