The West University of Technology's "Cloud Owl" flapping wing UAV broke the world record, with a flight time of more than 154 minutes on a single charge.

Thank CTOnews.com netizens Rimi Ishihara for the delivery of the clue to happiness! CTOnews.com, December 12 (Xinhua) according to the official account of Northwestern Polytechnic University, Guinness World Records has announced that the flight time of the flapping wing drone applied by Northwestern Polytechnic University has been successfully challenged, with a record time of 2 hours, 34 minutes, 38.62 seconds (more than 154minutes).

According to officials from Northwestern Polytechnic University, the school's self-developed flapping-wing UAV took off at 14:03:04 on Nov. 15. It followed its own route and landed smoothly at 16:37:42, exceeding the original record for 63 minutes.

CTOnews.com learned that the "Cloud Owl" flapping-wing UAV, which set a new world record, adopted key technologies such as high-lift and high-thrust flexible flapping wing design, efficient bionic drive system design and integrated micro flight control and navigation, with a wingspan of 1.82m, no-load takeoff weight of 1kg, hand-throwing take-off, gliding landing, and can fly independently according to the set route, and can change course in real time during flight.

Professor Song Bifeng of Northwestern Polytechnic University said that birds in nature have amazing flight capabilities, and the study of their flight mechanism and related bionic technology is a subversive technology for developing new concept aircraft and improving the performance of existing aircraft. World aviation powers have also listed bionic flight technology as a key area of development.