Genesis of your product. why and for whom?

COBRA worked with HG Robotic, designing and producing composite components for their multi-rotor drones. VETAL is a twin rotor, tail sitting, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone that the company launched for large scale agricultural surveys and general surveillance monitoring.

Benefits for the final customers?

To reduce weight, a combination of carbon fiber stitched biaxial fabrics and UD reinforcements is used wherever possible, with additional glass fiber reinforced laminate sections where radio-transparency or insulation from metallic parts is required.

The product : materials and processes

COBRA proposed a hybrid solution, combining both hollow and cored sections, for the flying wing. The main body of the aircraft comprises a PVC foam sandwich shell with a low-density EPS foam rib which, combined with a fully foam cored tail structure, delivers a complete airframe fractionally lighter than the customer''s challenging target.