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Fledgling company’s drone combines best aspects of multi-rotor and fixed-wing craft By Jim Magill Commercial and military customers looking for a drone solution that combines the portability of a multi-rotor copter drone with the heavy-lift capability and long-range flight time of a fixed-wing aircraft might have found the answer they’re …

LiquidPiston and its MIT grad CEO Alec Shkolnik have spent greater than a decade on a revolutionary design that inverts the rotary engine that Felix Wankel created in 1960.  The result’s a small, highly effective, multi-fuel succesful engine: one which LiquidPiston believes will assist drone producers improve flight endurance by greater than 50%. …