New Guinness World Record of heaviest load carried by a drone 14th December 2018
The Guinness World Records for the heaviest payload lifted by a drone has been broken by FPT Industrial and Forvola, during FPT Industrial’s Tech Day event in Turin, Italy, on November 23rd. Forvola’s megadrone, with its 16 propellers, lifted a box full of FPT Industrial spare parts weighing 101kg to a height of almost 1.5 meters for more than one minute and three seconds.
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New Guinness World Record of heaviest load carried by a droneThe Guinness World Records for the heaviest payload lifted by a drone has been broken by FPT Industrial and Forvola, during FPT Industrial’s Tech Day event in Turin, Italy, on November 23rd. Forvola’s megadrone, with its 16 propellers, lifted a box full of FPT Industrial spare parts weighing 101kg to a height of almost 1.5 meters for more than one minute and three seconds.
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Specialist NMEA 2000 training course provided in the South WestDelivering the latest in a series of dedicated courses, Actisense has continued its partnership with British Marine this month to give companies from as far afield as Cornwall and the Channel Islands access to qualifications normally only available in the US. Several companies have now benefited from the Actisense and British Marine Collaboration which officially launched this summer.
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