Mk3 Overview
The Flamingo Mk2 has proven to be a reliable and robust platform since production began in 2006. These features as well as the modularity and ease of operation have been retained in the design of the Flamingo Mk3.
The Flamingo Mk3 has been designed to provide a 65% increase in payload volume (3kg capacity increase) and an additional 4 hours of flight time while remaining within the 25kg maximum takeoff weight. A key design feature of the Mk3 is the flexibility with component and payload layout. Our in house design capability allows tailored solutions to be generated for individual requirements.
Experience has shown that most customers have very definite preferences when it comes to the Avionics and Payload mix on any UAV. This fact, coupled with Government regulations regarding the restricted export of UAVs fitted with Navigation Avionics, has shaped our resolve to primarily concentrate on supplying the UAV industry with a range of elegant, versatile and aerodynamically efficient UAV airframes that can be tailored to customers’ requirements with ease.
We are well placed to work with our customers to provide tailored navigation and payload configuration design to meet mission requirements. Fitting of suitable avionics packages to customer’s specifications will be quoted as a separate item once the customers’ requirements are made clear. Silvertone will engage closely with your organization in order to understand your operational requirements and provide you with an accurate quote.
A very important benefit of the high aerodynamic efficiency of the Flamingo is its ability to operate with smaller engines than usually found in 4 metre UAVs. This naturally reduces the fuel requirement and improves endurance.
Mk3 Specifications
Mk3 Production Standards
Manufacturing control
Silvertone have developed a design data pack for the manufacture and assembly of the Flamingo Mk3 ensuring quality controlled repeatable manufacture. havin a defined quality process for manufacturing conformance is a vital step in the overall aim to have a type certified UAV.
Payload testing
To streamline integration of payloads into the Flamingo Mk3, Silvertone are undertaking payload testing with their Flamingo Mk2 test platform, completing successful trials with EO and IR stabilised gimbals, live feed data links and a VHF Analogue/Digital radio repeater providing hand held coverage over 50km at low altitudes.
