FIXED WING VTOL/VAQUERO/STATUS: IN FLIGHT TEST

Vaquero

Vaquero takes off vertically from a caliche pad and transitions to wing-borne flight for a full working day. It returns with an orthomosaic, a thermal pass, and a track of everything it saw.

10 HR

TARGET ENDURANCE

IN FLIGHT TEST

Engineering render of the Vaquero fixed-wing VTOL survey aircraft — GEN 1 CONCEPT — ENGINEERING RENDER

SPECIFICATION

CONFIGURATION: Fixed wing VTOL, 4 lift + 1 pusher
WINGSPAN: 3.5 m
MTOW: 24 kg
TARGET ENDURANCE: 10 hr (bench + flight test ongoing)
CRUISE: 22 m/s
PAYLOAD: Gimballed optical + LWIR turret, 2.4 kg
OPERATION: Part 107; building to Part 108 DAA + conspicuity
ORIGIN: Designed and assembled in the United States

WHAT IT’S FOR

01Weekly full-lease imagery across scattered pads in Reeves County instead of a quarterly contract flight.
02Thermal screening of tank batteries and separators over a whole Delaware Basin block in a single sortie.
03Locating undocumented wellbores on ranch acreage in the Anadarko where no plat shows them.

WHAT IT ISN’T

Vaquero is not a survey-grade photogrammetry replacement for lidar-based reserves work. It is for frequency — seeing your field weekly instead of quarterly.

RENDERS ARE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS. FIELD OUTPUT SHOWN AS SIMULATED IS LABELLED AS SUCH.

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