Chapter 83: Drone Finalization, Peregrine Falcon No. 1 Shuttlecraft

Regarding his two teachers' love‑hate behavior, Li Mingyang naturally doesn't understand it; now he is busy every day with the finalization problem of the drone.

Although at first Li Mingyang was quite satisfied with his own design.

But as his thinking gradually matured, Li Mingyang realized that not everything needs to be made with the best materials to design an excellent drone.

Nothing else, it's mainly about cost and industrial issues.

Perhaps this thing could be made in a top‑level laboratory, regardless of cost; wanting to make a drone whose performance exceeds that on the market by more than a little is naturally not a problem.

But if one wants to widely apply this drone to daily life, or to put it more directly,

If one wants to turn this drone into a product that can have sufficient competitiveness on the market, then one must consider the cost‑control issue.

So after Li Mingyang's brain suddenly reacted, he discarded his previous idea of obsessively pursuing extreme performance, like a bull's horn.

Instead, he chose to even sacrifice some performance to gain longer endurance, while also being able to control his drone's cost to the lowest level.

The main point is a combination of performance and cost‑performance; it's not that the highest performance is the best, nor that the cheapest price is the best.

One must find a point that is quite suitable between the two.

However, Li Mingyang didn't completely abandon the top‑notch design, after all, the customer base for this kind of shuttlecraft still has a certain characteristic.

Generally speaking, these folks aren't short of money, after all the shuttlecraft's speed is usually high, and the demand for maneuverability is also high.

And those who generally like to play with this kind of thing enjoy challenging relatively high‑difficulty terrain, such as abandoned buildings and the like.

In their hands, the shuttlecraft is not a long‑term use tool, but rather more like a small toy.

A small toy that can be repurchased at any time if accidentally damaged; in other words, people who usually play with shuttlecraft are actually not short of money.

So after Li Mingyang thought it over repeatedly, he decided, like some phone manufacturers, to directly launch three versions of his drone.

One is the basic version, which emphasizes the highest cost‑performance; closely following it are a Pro version and a Max version.

These two versions are ones Li Mingyang had already completed in the design process but felt unsuitable; it's not a technical problem, mainly a cost limitation.

Without a doubt, the final Max version naturally represents the ultimate pursuit of performance.

However, this thing's endurance is certainly also the worst, making it more suitable for high‑end players within the industry.

After all, even if Li Mingyang only tested it once, the speed of this thing hasn't been finalized for the final matched model.

But even as a test machine, its limit speed already exceeds 400 km/h, which is incomparable to ordinary drones.

Li Mingyang even has a premonition that when his final Max version drone finally appears, its top speed could very well exceed 450 km/h.

Such speed, not to mention now in the drone industry, even if placed ten years from now, would absolutely be an overwhelming advantage.

After all, no one should be as crazy as Li Mingyang, merely calculating the manufacturing cost of a single Max version drone!

To build one, it would cost at least 50,000 yuan!

If this thing is to realize profit, or rather to guarantee a substantial profit, its price would definitely not be lower than 100,000 yuan!

If ordinary people aren't brain‑dead, they definitely couldn't spend that much money to buy a tiny drone, which is even a consumable.

After all, at such high speed, a single operational mistake would mean directly announcing that 100,000 yuan has gone down the drain.

So even veteran shuttlecraft players would likely be unable to bear such a high price.

And the reason Li Mingyang also launched the Max version is that, on one hand, there indeed are people who like such extreme performance and don't mind spending money.

On the other hand, Li Mingyang also needs such a drone to open up fame for his future drone company.

If it's the basic version drone, its level is roughly that of an ordinary shuttlecraft, with a cruising speed of about 240 km/h.

Of course, even at this speed, for the shuttlecraft of this era, it absolutely counts as an overwhelming domination.

But Li Mingyang, having become accustomed to the drone level ten years later, naturally feels that his ordinary version drone isn't impressive enough.

However, for this drone, Li Mingyang plans to use his own battery technology!

If it can have the support of the latest battery, plus Li Mingyang's self‑designed hybrid system!

The endurance of this shuttlecraft, even if placed ten years later, would absolutely be enough to outclass its peers.

In other words, even the most basic version drone, if placed in the market ten years later, would still have sufficient competitiveness.

However, by that time, if your brand hasn't taken off and you're merely a three‑no product, even if you have decent data,

but putting it on the market might not even make a splash.

After all, by that time the domestic and even international drone market will have become the domain of a certain company.

Even speaking boldly, looking at the whole world there would be no one who could compete.

However, now it's not bad; the domestic market in this area is almost entirely blank.

Moreover, Li Mingyang has sufficient confidence; since he has already taken the initiative in this life, the drone market will naturally become his domain in the future.

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«The limit speed of the standard version drone is 246 km/h, and its endurance at limit speed is 38 minutes. »

«The limit speed of the Pro version is 298 km/h, and its endurance at limit speed is 31 minutes. »

«As for the final Max version, its limit speed is 461 km/h, but its endurance is somewhat undesirable, with only 11 minutes at limit speed. »

«However, no matter which version of the drone, our control system is highly compatible. »

«Whether it's the sensitivity of the response or the flight attitude and flight stability, etc., our drone can be called excellent. »

I don't know from when, but when Sun Dongnan stands beside Li Mingyang, he already has a feeling like a subordinate facing a boss.

For example, during the current final test, Sun Dongnan's demeanor, actions, or tone are exactly like an employee reporting work to a boss.