Eh I’m not sure they’ll be lighter look at mobile phones they aren’t getting lighter...
Battery technology is maxed out currently, plastics and composites aren’t going to change much...
Not much weight shedding to be done here my bet is that they’ll add more collision sensors as they become cheaper but not much else they can do.
They shouldn’t add any weight and you’ll offset their weight with the removal of the material from the chassis.
As for the flight characteristics I’m pretty sure they did everything with the heavier battery you go from 18W to 8W in exchange for losing 50g which is only 16% reduction in weight form 299 to 249.
If anything the loophole battery would perform considerably worse given the power output of the cell compared to the full one.
It also looks like the S mode isn’t available for the smaller battery I have a feeling that once reviews will start popping out the FAA approved config will be called gimp mode.
Battery technology is maxed out currently, plastics and composites aren’t going to change much...
Not much weight shedding to be done here my bet is that they’ll add more collision sensors as they become cheaper but not much else they can do.
They shouldn’t add any weight and you’ll offset their weight with the removal of the material from the chassis.
As for the flight characteristics I’m pretty sure they did everything with the heavier battery you go from 18W to 8W in exchange for losing 50g which is only 16% reduction in weight form 299 to 249.
If anything the loophole battery would perform considerably worse given the power output of the cell compared to the full one.
It also looks like the S mode isn’t available for the smaller battery I have a feeling that once reviews will start popping out the FAA approved config will be called gimp mode.