[blutack]

Definitely not a new form factor, this has been around for donkeys. I've personally seen them for at least 20 years at various industry shows.

This is presumably a totally uncritical lazy press release copy paste. For goodness sake, NASA's Ingenuity is not exactly a secret and that's only the latest in a very long line of commercial coaxial UAS.

Looks like a perfectly nice coax, but exactly the same tradeoffs of much higher mechanical complexity for a slightly smaller operating footprint which make them less appealing for most use cases. The article completely glosses over the fact that most traditional X/+ designs fold for transport.

[rasse]

It's not a new form factor for Ascent Aerosystems, either. They did a Kickstarter for a coaxial drone in 2017.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ascentaerosystems/sprit...

[alphan0n]

> this has been around for donkeys

"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.

"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."

"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."

"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, "you don't know much about adventures."

[blutack]

Contraction of donkey's years, a common en-GB idiom for a long time. Good reference though!