Credit: Hornet Air
Hornet Air
H1
Single-seat, 8 motors, folding
Hornet Air HORNET H1, a single-seat electric multirotor. Hornet Air lists a payload of up to 120 kg, flight time of up to 30 minutes, top speed of up to 120 km/h, flight altitude of 1000 m, and a 400V system with 8 motors. Weight is 180 kg without batteries, 280 kg with batteries, and 400 kg max takeoff. Flight size is 4,000 × 4,000 × 1,165 mm; folded for transport it is 2,672 × 1,266 × 1,165 mm. The complete kit starts at $150,000 and includes the aircraft, two 400V batteries, a 220V dual charger, a ground station, a radio (up to 20 km), precision GNSS and an audio and video link. Pre-orders are closed while the maker tests for certification. The page does not name the authority. Range, cruise speed, parachute and where it is built are not published.
- Range
- Not published
(varies with speed, reserves, and how the pilot flies the mission).
- Payload
- Up to 120 kg
- Cruise
- Not published
(chosen by the pilot, and traded against range and endurance).
- Top speed
- Up to 120 km/h
- Flight time
- Up to 30 min
(varies with the speed the pilot selects and the reserves kept for the mission).
- Price
- Starting at $150,000 (complete kit)
- Empty weight
- 180 kg without batteries
- MTOW
- 400 kg
- Ceiling
- 1000 m
- Seats
- 1
- Battery / fuel
- Two batteries, each 400V (capacity not published)
- Size
- 4,000 × 4,000 × 1,165 mm (flight)
- Charge
- Not published
- First flight
- Not published
- Entry into service
- Not published
Full figures
- Weight with batteries
- 280 kg
- Motors
- 8 electric motors
- Propellers
- 8 carbon fibre
- Frame
- Aerospace aluminium and carbon fibre
- Transport size
- 2,672 × 1,266 × 1,165 mm
- Charger
- 220V, dual battery (charge time not published)
- Kit
- Aircraft, two 400V batteries, charger, ground control station GS-H-1, radio up to 20 km, precision GNSS with RTK, audio and video link
- Harness
- 6-point, SPARCO F1
For
- Complete kit from $150,000
- Up to 120 kg payload
Against
- Range and cruise not published
- Pre-orders closed while testing for certification