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Meet F10 Lightrunner: Fixed Wing Performance with Quadcopter Simplicity
Posted Oct 07, 2026 | Views 261
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Harrison Zhu
Staff Product Manager - F10 @ Skydio
Macario Namie
CMO @ Skydio
Macario Namie serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Skydio, where he leads the company’s marketing, brand, and go-to-market strategy.
With over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, he has guided marketing and strategy teams for enterprise-software firms including Cisco, WebEx, Jasper Technologies, and ASAPP.
A BA graduate from University of California, Berkeley, Macario is Part 107 certified and holds a private pilot license — aligning his personal passion for aviation with Skydio’s mission in autonomous flight.
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SUMMARY
Skydio CMO Macario Namie and F10 Product Manager Harrison Zhu introduce the Skydio F10 Lightrunner fixed-wing drone. F10 launches in seconds, flies 100 mph for up to 120 minutes, covering a 30 mile radius. This session walks through how F10 brings long-range response into existing DFR programs, with up to five aircraft launching and landing from one MegaDock, no ground crew or specialized pilots needed. We close with a live audience Q&A on deployment, airspace & BVLOS, connectivity, safety, training and other audience questions.
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CONTENT & TRANSCRIPT
Flying robots are changing outcomes in cities across the nation. They're saving lives and helping our core industries keep civilization running.
But the need for aerial intelligence is everywhere. To go far and get there fast, you need something with wings. A flying robot that can be remotely operated and launched from an autonomous dock.
Skydio F10 Lightrunner is a revolution in aerial robotics.
F10 covers a 30 mile radius, nearly 3,000 square miles.
And it gets there fast with speeds up to 100 miles per hour. All while flying for a really, really long time.
But flight performance is only half the story because why operate one drone with five people when robotic takeoff and landing means one person can remotely operate five F10s from a single mega dock.
F10 is like nothing you've seen before. Traditional fixed wings block their own camera's view. F10's side eye design means you never lose sight of what matters.
Most importantly, F10 needs to work for you and you and you. That's why we developed foresight. Autonomy that dynamically plans and maneuvers F10 as conditions change.
Just click what you want to look at and foresight takes care of the rest so you can focus on the mission. Does this sound familiar? That's because F10 is part of Skydio's family of flying robots. A drone for every type of mission all in one ecosystem.
F10 doesn't just improve on aerial intelligence, it completely revolutionizes it. And the world of flying robots will never be the same.
Alright. Good morning. Good afternoon. Thank you everybody for taking time out of your busy day to come and join us and learn a little bit more about the Skydio F10 Lightrunner.
My name is Macario Namie. I'm the chief marketing officer. I'm also joined by Harrison Zhu, who is our product leader for this product. We're gonna spend a few minutes walking you through the product, a lot of the specifications, exactly how it works, and hope to answer as many questions as we can.
You know, two years ago, Skydio announced Dock for X10, which is a a fully autonomous, capability that allows the X10 to respond to emergencies that are far away, to be able to conduct inspections autonomously, and and much more. The X10Flight itself as an aircraft is highly highly versatile. It can run-in urban canyons. It can run-in rural environments, and it has proven to be an extraordinary aircraft.
However, it cannot do everything. Last year, we announced R10, which is perfectly suited for indoor flights as well as confined spaces, dark spaces for inspection purposes as well as emergency response. And two weeks ago, we announced F10 Lightrunner.
And the reason we did that is because, we, across our family of flying robots, we know that some missions simply require you to go very far and to go very fast. And, as we have learned, if you want to go far and you go fast, you don't do that in a helicopter. You don't do it in a rotocraft. Quadcopters are extraordinarily powerful and and versatile, but they are not designed for this. The form factor that matters the most is a wing. This is why when we go to the airport, we are flying on airplanes and not helicopters when we seek to cross the country. So winged form factor is is really the mechanism that allows us to deliver the kind of specifications that F10 has.
And you would imagine that, there would be a lot of fixed wing drones out there in the marketplace, but there really aren't. And that's because there's still a lot of, challenges to do what it is that you want to do with a fixed wing architecture. And so we really set out to design F10 to solve three primary challenges. One is ensuring that no matter what environment that you're in, no matter what flight path is required, that you can maintain visibility of the subject that you're trying to look at, whether that's, moving or not. We want to make this very, very, very easy to fly.
So... And and to provide as much automation and autonomy as possible. So you don't have to have strong expertise and hundreds of hours of flight experience in order to get the benefits from a fixed wing drone. And the third is to try and remove the number of people required to be able to scale this, to be able to use this capability. So we built and, looked at what can we do to autonomously launch as well as land or catch the F10 without requiring any people in the field, and to make it a really, really small team that can do quite extraordinary things. We believe we have solved these challenges with F10 Lightrunner and its fully autonomous docking station, which we call Megadock. And I'm gonna turn it over to Harrison to walk you through how we did it.
Thanks, Marcario. Hi. Harrison Zhu again, staff product manager here, leading the F10 effort. I'll walk you through a little bit of the high level capabilities of this platform. I'll then take you through this sort of more detailed engineering explanations of how we're able to solve the three sort of major problems with existing fixed wing drones. I'll then show you what the flight experience looks like and what this all looks like when it comes together, and then go through a little bit more of the f a, FAQ type, type activities at the very end.
Alright. And I should be able to move slides here. So these are the top line numbers. You heard about them in the video, but I'll just sort of reiterate that F10 will fly at a 100 miles per hour.
This is the FAA limitation for ground speed. We literally cannot go faster per per the FAA. It will fly up to a hundred and twenty minutes. This is not necessarily at a 100 miles per hour, but you can actually get a hundred and twenty minutes of endurance out of this platform.
It'll cover approximately a 30 mile radius, so that means getting out to 30 miles and having, some useful time on station. That translates into 2,800 square miles of coverage area, which is just mind boggling.
The charge time will be approximately forty five minutes, and that is after the battery is heated or cooled to the nominal charging temperature, which should take, you know, five minutes in a worst case scenario. And, again, you can put up to five F10s in one mega dock. And the takeaway from the sort of top level specifications is that this platform together brings an insane amount of capacity and capability to wherever it's deployed. And to give you some more context for that, I've got some slides. So, you know, with a five minute response, you can get out to eight miles anywhere within eight miles in just a five minute time span. That's about 200 square miles of coverage area.
At the fifteen minute timeline, you can actually get out to about 25 miles, so about 2,000 square miles of coverage area. The max response is about 30 miles, so 2,800 square miles of coverage area. And the vast majority of counties are basically smaller than this. I believe it's about 90% of counties are actually smaller than this footprint.
Speaking of counties, to put it in more specific context, Douglas County, Colorado is 844 square miles, so you can actually cover easily the entire county with one mega dock and and a set of F10s.
Clark County, on the other hand, is a little bit bigger. It may take a couple of more. It's about 8,000 square miles, large, large county, lots of stuff to get to.
And with just three mega docks, you could be basically anywhere within the county in in just fifteen minutes.
Going a little bit larger because that, you know, seems almost too easy. 57,000 square miles is what the state of Georgia covers. There are about 24... Or sorry. 2,400,000 distribution poles in in this location. And with 18 Megadocks, you'll be able to cover almost the entire state.
That's the current sort of format of Megadock. We are eventually going to build what we call dock hopping where you can take off from one dock and then land in another, which should extend the range and drop that number from 18 Megadocks to, something slightly lower. We'll have to figure out how the math shakes out, but it's gonna get better over time.
Ultimately, this will just give you an incredible amount of capacity and capability for rural and urban, suburban response. Automated corridor patrols as well for oil and gas transmission line. It'll also give you the capacity to search and try to find people in wide open areas. And then, of course, because of the speed, F10 will be incredible for high speed pursuits, which hopefully turn into lower speed pursuits and just follows once the aircraft is following and in the air.
Alright. I'll take you through the more detailed engineering explanations of our solutions for one, two, and three here. So to maintain visibility of what you're looking at, there are a couple of challenges and a couple of solves. The main solve that we have actually put into F10 is the side eye design, which basically is our way of describing us putting the gimbal out on the left wingtip and making the entire...
Building the entire aircraft basically around that. So the fuselage is offset to the right, And you're probably looking at this thing and thinking that should not fly. That's what I'll...
I'll also say that that's mostly what people said about the b two bomber and and the...
Through the through the talent of engineering, they were able to make the b two fly. Now it's iconic, and we think it'll be basically the same with F10. So this thing is perfectly asymmetric. We have some of the smartest engineers on the planet basically writing custom optimizers to design this aircraft.
In the same way that formula one cars are not designed by hand, F10 is not also designed by hand. It is it is computer optimized to be stable and effective through all phases of flight despite this sort of odd looking configuration.
What this does for us is actually when... Allows us to... When we are turning left predominantly, like sort of NASCAR, right, it allows the gimbal to be basically be on the lowest point of the orbit or of the aircraft looking primarily downwards. When we do that, that translates into almost zero occlusions from the aircraft actually getting in the way of the camera.
A little bit more of a visualization here. So you can see on the left, this is a competitor platform. It's going to cast a shadow on the ground every time one of its landing gear or, or wings gets in the way. On the other hand, on the right with F10, you basically get no occlusion.
Another challenge in sort of keeping the subject or target in view is actually pointing the gimbal itself. So once it's below the aircraft and it is capable of seeing all the things around it downwards, it's then sort of the pilot or the sensor operator's challenge to be able to actually track something, while the air... Aircraft is actually flying. So shadow is the subject, track and follow feature that we have on X10. We are rewriting it completely to actually be adapted to the fixed wing platform. So Shadow will detect subjects. You can then follow those subjects from from from the platform, and it will fly the aircraft around obstacles to maintain consistent consistent view of of of sorry, of targets or subjects.
Of course, if you don't have connectivity, you can't see anything, and that's why we're bringing ConnectFusion Plus forward through to F10. So ConnectFusion Plus is the technology that we use to, put multiple cellular networks on a single aircraft or multiple cellular radios on a single aircraft. F10 will have two of these cellular modems, if not three. We're still trying to figure that out and testing to see if three is necessary. But it will have at least two cellular radios on board, and this should get you coverage of the vast majority, of The United States.
Of course, once you can see things, if the experience isn't simple, then you need to train pilots for, you know, months, if not years. You may need up to two people to actually operate the aircraft, and that is gonna get in the way of your ability to adopt and scale technology like this. So we have addressed that with a couple of different technologies. The first is Foresight.
So this is basically the autonomy, Skydio autonomy rewritten and adapted to, the the new F10 fixed wing platform. It is going to take in a ton of data. Basically, everything about the environment that we can feed it that might play into how a pilot would decide how to fly an aircraft, we are going to feed foresight. And foresight is basically just going to fly the drone almost completely on its own.
It's gonna take into account things like geofences. It's gonna take into account things like the aircraft's own sort of structure and and visibility. It's going to take into account winds. It's going to take into account any number of these things.
And what that ultimately allows us to do is actually produce an experience that we like to call one click flying. So previously, with other fixed wing aircraft, you would have to drop a number of points in the map. You'd have to then go check those points and manage the altitudes and, you know, there...
It goes on and on. With foresight and F10, you'll actually just be able to click once in the field of view or even on the map, and and Foresight will just take care of it, and F10 will fly itself.
Of course, we have to be safe and fast when we're actually transiting. So Pathfinder Pathfinder data, which is essentially our version of Google Maps for the sky, will be fed through into F10. Pathfinder will take terrain data, will take building data, and other sort of obstruction data, and feed that into our autonomy systems, like it does with X10, and it will route the aircraft, around or over, over obstacles or terrain, keeping you compliant, with FAA waivers and safe.
Speaking of, speaking of the FAA, of course, we wanna avoid other, crude airmanned aircraft. So we actually will have, the Skydio airspace assurance system, which is new for F10. It's going to incorporate the standard daytime obstacle avoidance that you might find on, on X10, except we are going to make that work all the way up to a 100 miles per hour. And then for other aircraft in the airspace, we actually will have an ADS B detect and avoid system. So if there's another aircraft flying at F10, and you... And your pilot has not sort of reacted in time, F10 will take automatic automatic evasive action and, and avoid those aircraft.
Finally, the ground crew problem is is quite difficult and another one of these things that really, really gets in the way of of customers and and agencies being able to adopt technology like this. I flew fixed wing drones in the marine corps, and we had a a crew of about six to eight people on standby, basically, twenty four seven to launch the aircraft that I flew. And that just doesn't work for for the vast majority of customers out there.
So we solved this, of course, with Megadock.
And Megadock, through robotic takeoff and landing, allows you to have five aircraft at the ready twenty four seven at the click of a button with no ground crew. So a single person really could launch and operate up to five aircraft, especially with the future multidrone waivers that are going to extend to F10. Megadock will also, have to have power and connectivity run to it, and it also has an included HVAC system, which you can see there on the left, that will optimize and heat and cool the batteries for for the fastest charging we can we can muster.
Finally, with the fenced in area, the secure sort of launch and catch area that we call the front yard, you'll you'll be able to make sure that people are out of the launch and land space, keeping people safe and keeping your equipment equipment safe.
You can see here that we actually use use a system on the robotic arm, to catch and launch the aircraft with, suction cups. So the suction cups are a sort of very well, well tested and well engineered system that many companies actually use in robotic packaging solutions in warehouses. So we are basically borrowing all of that engineering and all of that testing to to actually produce an even more reliable and more more economically effective solution in in Megadock.
And with this whole system, like I mentioned before, you could have one person really operating up to five aircraft.
In terms of continuous coverage and having drones up in the air, you could have about three and a half drones on average in the air with a single person and a single Megadock, which is just an incredible, incredible capability.
And, this video that we're about to bring up is what it looks like when all that is put together.
So this is, from our customer demos at, at our Ascend conference. You can see, the drone actually flying in the map on the left. It is currently using shadow and tracking the subject over here. You can see, through these orbits that you'll basically get no occlusion.
Foresight, which you'll, you'll see hints of on the left in the map with the, the sort of, path indicator in the orbit is just optimizing for all kinds of things, at once and allowing, our pilot at this time, Nacho, to, to go ahead and basically go hands off at this point, really just managing the zoom and trying to figure out, you know, let's say, what's in the back of the truck, you know, or what the driver or passenger might look like with very, very sort of minimal cognitive load and input.
Of course, if it gets a little far away, Nacho is going to have to sort of adjust his orbit. And you can see here that he really does that basically just with one click. He's just dragging and dropping in foresight.
Our planner is adapting to that new, to that new orbit and basically giving Nacho what he wants based on the single click.
There are other flight modes, of course. You can actually do what we call cursor lock, which is basically taking the gimbal and pointing it manually, with, with your pointer.
There'll also be other manual modes, more manual modes if you really need them, such as heading hold.
Great. So now I'm gonna get into a little bit more of the details and some frequently asked questions before, answering some q and a. So to start with, there will be an integrated parachute. So the integrated parachute enables category three operations over people. We believe this to be critically important, because as you're keeping your communities safe and the power running, you should be keeping the people on the ground safe. It also allows you to comply with, FAA FAA regulations. It is also directly integrated into the airframe, which makes the, whole system more reliable and, and simpler, and gives you sort of more more mass savings, allowing you to fly further and longer.
The infrared camera on F10 is also upgraded. We are going to a narrower field of view camera to allow for sort of better angular resolution or better infrared resolution at a given standoff distance.
In terms of software, F10 will be compatible with all of the Skydio command softwares. The functionality will be sort of available in varying degrees across them, but it will be compatible and flyable from all of those commands.
Speaking of software, Paraverse, our simulator will also be available with F10 in it. We expect that to be out somewhat soon so that you don't have to have your equipment to train.
You don't have to have to... Or have to put up a live flight to train and that you'll be able to get your pilots used to the experience before before the hardware arrives.
Time to launch is gonna be pretty similar to the dock for X10, so twenty to thirty seconds to launch. The cruise speed is gonna be approximately 45 miles per hour for best endurance. That's when you would see the hundred and twenty minutes.
Our batteries are custom designed for F10.
They're really... They're much larger batteries to get us the hundred twenty minute flight time. And because of that, they won't be necessarily transportable via a passenger plane.
Environmental ratings will be IP 55 for the for the aircraft itself. Takeoff and catch will be up to 27 miles per hour like other Skydio aircraft.
Megadock will also be compatible with future Skydio fixed wing vehicles. So it's worth mentioning that, in all sort of standard contracts, you get a refresh halfway through, halfway through the contract where we will give you the latest and greatest.
The mega dock will be compatible with those future aircraft, and the swap procedure will basically be swapping out the cradle in which the drone sits and dropping in the new aircraft.
Maintenance and repair, which are also included in every standard package, will be annual for the Megadock itself and the HVAC. All the systems on Megadock are also replaceable just like Dock for X10. So if something breaks out in the field, which really shouldn't happen, but if something is going on in the field, we're gonna come out and we're gonna fix it in place.
The footprint for Megadock is about 15 feet wide by 20 feet long, so... And nine and a half foot high. So approximately two to three parking spaces, maybe, like, two Texas parking spaces and three, you know, Hawaii parking spaces.
Deployment will be done primarily by tilt bed, tilt bed truck, forklift, or crane. Should take two deployment engineers two days to actually deploy the the dock. It's possible that this goes down over time, but, but that's what it looks like.
In terms of where we wanna deploy these things, the general recommendation would be secure lots, parking structures, or even sort of open lots. And and the nice thing about the endurance and range and speed of the platform is that you can actually deploy... You've you've got a much wider selection of locations or ranges that you can deploy to because moving the drone and dock a mile in that direction or a mile in that direction doesn't substantially change what you can cover.
Now that being said, rooftops are possible to be deployed to. It is going to require significant effort, including structural engineering sign off and design potentially. So we generally recommend secure lots or or parking structures.
The deployment surface has to be plus minus three degrees.
We generally think asphalt or concrete are going to be better. Other sort of softer surfaces like dirt and gravel may also be possible with a little bit more work.
Power requirements are gonna be 200 to 240 volt 60 hertz at a 100 amps. So this is basically like most car chargers, most electric vehicle chargers. That's about the same power that they require. It's going to require a little bit of infrastructure work, but but nothing nothing too crazy.
And, and the network requirements are 30 megabits per second per drone, upload speed, and the dock itself can actually take in gigabit, gigabit Ethernet.
There, will also not be a spotlight on this aircraft. We have the infrared camera, but we are looking at spotlights for the sort of next, the next aircraft and... That you would get in the sort of refresh.
The SkydioLink, radio will be used primarily for launch and land. It won't be sort of used for flight out in the operational area. That is going to be, almost exclusively cellular. That being said, we are looking at satellite, at satellite options for the next version of the aircraft, which, again, will be included.
F10 will, hover essentially only for launch, land, and emergencies. You know, this is the way that we actually... By being in forward flight, we can we can get much more efficiency out of the wing. Hovering will be, will be essentially, an emergency or launch land behavior only.
I talked about, dock hopping. So we are building the architecture of F10 and Megadock to support this, not out of the box, but slightly after, after GA. And, and that's just going to open up a whole new, new set of possibilities.
Flights will be done through through remote flight deck almost exclusively. Controller flight will not be supported.
In terms of regulatory, no new license is required to fly F10. A part one zero seven is is enough.
There will, however, be new waivers required to fly F10 beyond visual line of sight. But... And you might be sensing a theme here. Waiver services are included in all F10 packages.
We are, gonna be deploying F10 and Megadock to customers in 2027, sort of for early testing to start and then, and then, of course, through through the second half of the year GA.
And with that, I will answer some of the questions.
So the first question is how many training hours are required to achieve pilot competency?
I think there... There's a couple of ways we could we could maybe answer this. In some sense, it's actually...
We saw customers fly at Ascend, and within, you know, two to three minutes, they were competently flying F10, which is really, really incredible. It took me about six months in flight school, to, you know, just be able to fly a fixed wing and keep it from, like, coming out of the sky. But at Ascend, in our customer demos, we saw people really get the hang of it within two to three minutes. Now that being said, depending on sort of your, your program and your SOPs, you may want a little bit more training. We would love to work, excuse me, with, with any customers, right, who are who are sort of concerned or have, you know, requirements in terms of pilot pilot competency. We would love to work through through building a curriculum with you.
Can I add one one thing to that, Harrison? The, for for those who are familiar, we have a product called Paraverse, which is a completely virtual environment that, is completely aligned to the physics of our products.
And F10 will be available to fly and use inside of Paraverse, which allows for effectively unlimited reps regardless of the hardware being present or not.
We hope... We will make this available, obviously, as a training mechanism for all customers, as part of their F10 purchases and deployments. And we're also looking at, trying to make F10 flights and capabilities available inside of Paraverse even before that, as a, sort of a trial run or or demonstration environment, but that's still a few a few months away.
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Absolutely. And we'll, we'll be building in probably more scenario based training even into into Paraverse. The next question is, can the doc run off Starlink? This is technically possible.
In general, Starlinks don't usually provide the upload speeds we'd recommend for operating multiple aircraft. What that means is that the the dock may take longer to upload flight data after after the flight is done, so video, logs, so on and so forth.
But it is it is possible to do this.
The next question is, what is the emergency landing procedure? So in order of preference, the aircraft F10 will try to land in the dock on the robotic arm. If it can't do that, it's going to try to land in the netted area in the front yard, which you haven't seen yet, but will be will be available. If it can't do that, it's going to try to find a safe landing point, which you can specify during deployment, and we think we'll we'll be able to allow you to specify a safe landing point even in flight. And it will put itself down gently at that safe landing point. If if that isn't possible, it will deploy the parachute and and gracefully sort of come to the ground.
The next question is any plans down the road to make Megadock functional on a trailer to park it at natural disasters and special events?
We... We're taking a look at this. There's certainly no near term near term plans to make it trailerable. It's possible that, you know, over time, we may we may do something like this, but there are no plans right now.
One of the things that we that we believe strongly in with this platform because of the sort of range and speed is that it should basically cover most things. You know? If you don't have to cover sort of an entire state with a single dock, you should be able to put a couple of them in the sort of key areas that you expect to fly in.
The next question is any plans to add functionality models for data collection applications other than just response. So we we will obviously have video and photo. We are not planning, at at launch to make this available. We still have to take a look at the data coming off of F10 to see what's really gonna work for you.
And... But we are gonna take a look at that down the road, just not not in the launch timeline.
The next question is, is it the same camera as the X10?
So some of the camera modules are shared. So the the tele the tele camera module is shared. The narrow camera module is shared, but the infrared camera is is upgraded.
The next question is, while using the shadow feature, are you able to nudge the camera tracking position, for example, to get better views of of the truck bed?
The...
That is a good question. I don't think so at the moment, but that is something that we could take a look at, take a look at doing. Yeah. That's a that's a great question.
The, next question is, do you have any demos of F10 being deployed in a city setting with high rises, elevation increases, so on and so forth? The the the short answer here is basically for an environment like that, a sort of really urban city setting, we would expect an X10 an X10 Dock to really be the tool for that environment. An F10 will be able to fly in those settings, but due to sort of how tall the buildings may be or how tall the obstructions may be on the ground and potentially the density of incidents, and X10 may actually just be the better tool for that environment.
But we have we have plenty of ways that we can work with you between our our sales folks and our solutions engineers to determine where the right...
Know, you or what the right tool is for various environments.
The next question is, so you need to have cell coverage to fly. That is correct. Yep. And... But this is cell coverage between potentially, you know, at least one of two carriers, potentially one of three carriers.
So we we believe and actually have studied this, about 90% of the Continental US is covered by a combination of two carriers. So so, yeah, you you must have self coverage. That being said, like I mentioned earlier, we are taking a look at satellite solutions. There are none that we're gonna be really ready and viable on this timeline. So so that's something that we're looking at for for the next generation of aircraft.
The next question is, what measures were put into place on Megadocks to withstand vandalism? Yeah. So it's, as you can see, sort of made of a shipping container and a fenced in area.
At some level, at some level, if someone is really, really motivated, right, you know, anything is vandalizable. That being said, if you look at one of these out in the wild, the the container and the fence are nine and a half feet tall. They're they're pretty difficult to get over and around and pretty and pretty substantial. So that's that's the first that's the first approach here. The container can, of course, be locked by padlocks as a normal shipping container would be, and there's no way to enter through the, through the fenced in area unless you, unless you climb it or sort of, you know, damage it substantially.
There will also be dock cameras on, on the dock itself looking out into the fenced in area for security purposes. There's a dock camera looking into the container, for, for security purposes.
And then beyond that, we just recommend generally deploying to to locations that are not visible from... You know, or highly trafficked. Right?
Things like sort of parking structures in in a corner or a a lot that is potentially already secured with a fence that is just lower probability of, sort of, people walking nearby.
The next question is, is there any power backup within the Megadock to be able to fly after a natural disaster when power could be unavailable for, multiple days or weeks? There, there is not one included in Megadock itself. That being said, we, we will have instructions to be able to hook up external power banks.
External power banks, you know, you could imagine any sort of solution you would use to feed feed a similar system that you needed to work, you know, post natural disaster, like a generator battery combo.
Megadock will actually support external versions of those.
The next question is, is there any plans for mission planning, canine, or SWAT tracking live on the maps via apps on devices like iPhones?
The... For for mission planning, certainly. So so mission planning in terms of being able to drop waypoints ahead of time and actually plan out a mission, like you might see for inspection and mapping, That, we are definitely planning on doing. I can't say too much about the timelines there.
And then canine or SWAT tracking live on maps, via apps on devices, or iPhones. So we have, we have this capability actually already in the ecosystem. So we have markers that will show up with, for example, body worn cameras such as Axon body cameras. Those will show up.
And we actually have a new Skydio mobile app that we are working on for for, you know, things like this. I don't know if there are specific plans to make to make, you know, the Skydio app show up as a marker from an iPhone on our map, but, that's something that we can take a look at.
The next question is, can it work on, mesh or, Manet or mobile ad hoc networks? The answer is, not, not currently for this version. So, depending on your use case, you know, and depending on how far you need to go, the, the sort of mesh networks, the mesh network solution is actually, not always the most economically viable. I know sort of in the in the defense world, right, I used to work with these these types of systems all the time. That's much more, much more doable. And let's see. It's much more doable and more viable.
Alright. So that's that's all we've got for today. Thank you everyone for tuning in. We we really appreciate the interest and the opportunity to get to speak with you and give you sort of more details on the system.
Yeah. We'll see you next time.
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# Utilities
# Remote Operations
# Maintenance
# Drone