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World’s First Jet Engine Drone

Quest for the best would never end. Everyone in their lives demand the best for them. Could you imagine a "Jet Engine" in a drone? Yes, you heard it correct. Jet Engine in a drone. Just imagine the performance of the drone.

Fusion Flight, Dallas based company, has assembled Jet Engine into quad core and has tested it and has witnessed extreme fast speed of the drone. this has been named AB5 Jet Quad.

According to Fusion Flight this is the smallest and most powerful jet drone which has specialty of vertical landing and takeoff.

Instead of electric motor, engineers have placed four diesel engines which are micro turbine jet engines. When fully operational produces 200 horse power.

Initial noted speed of this drone is 480 KM/HR. 19 Liters of fuel is enough for 30 minutes flight. Additional speed can be achieved by adding afterburner.

This drone is specially designed for carrying luggage from one point to another. It can carry 18 KG of luggage. This is to be noted that its own weight is 23 KG and adding fuel with full tanks adds 40 ponds to the weight.

According to Alexander Taits, CEO Fusion Flight, this drone will be available in 2021 in markets and can be purchased. The expected price of this drone would be 200000 - 250000 USDs.

Syed Tanzeel Ashfaq

Syed Tanzeel Ashfaq is Software Engineer by profession and has over ten years of experience. He loves to express himself through blogging about Information Technology, Software development, Urdu literature, Islamic history and several other topics.