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The F8 UAV

The F8 is the latest addition to the Skylens UAV fleet. It is designed and built to shoot high quality stills and steady HD video.

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http://www.flyingvideo.co.uk

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It is an eight rotor (octocopter) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) with a stabilised camera head with the ability to fly and hold its position utilising GPS in winds up to 20mph.

See the F8 UAV page for more info.

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Our new F8 UAV (Un-manned Aerial Vehicle) is specially designed to shoot quality stills and steady HD video.

(See www.flyingvideo.co.uk for examples of this.)

The Skylens F8 UAV

 

Watch the Skylens F8 UAV in flight - click HERE

This "octocopter" (eight rotors) design was decided on following a lengthy evaluation of the UAV Market to provide our clients with a better service allowing us to fly in higher wind speeds and to be more flexible in times and  areas that we can fly.

The stabilised mount allows the camera to tilt more than a total of 180 degrees, being able to view straight up, straight ahead or straight down, without any parts of the vehicle including the rotor blades compromising the image. New imaging possibilities are created by this unique field of view. The angle of the camera can be  fully controlled while in flight.

The Skylens F8 UAV is capable of landing autonomously if radio communication is severed or a motor/rotor unit fails.

Skylens is certified by the CAA to operate UAV's

 

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Technical Information

  • Rotor diameter: 8 inches
  • Maximum Payload: 500g
  • Flight time: up to 40 minutes without payload. 15 minutes approx. with full payload
  • The UAV is fitted with an Autopilot which uses 11 sensors (three gyroscopes, three accelerometers, three magnetic field sensors, air-pressure and temperature sensors) and GPS receiver. This technology enables it to autonomously hold orientation, position and height (GPS position hold) without any control inputs.Control of the vehicle can be done by either using a signal secure remote control or path-planning software running through a computer
  • All flight data (max. height, airspeed, GPS position, etc) and control inputs are logged and saved to a onboard SD card.
  • the camera head is vibration dampened and compensated actively in pitch and roll axes.
    Universal mount degrees of movement:
    +/- 100° in Pitch axis (180+ total)
    +/- 30° in Roll axis

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