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Ok, I'll bite, what is a 'fibre-optic' drone?
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Why not have the spool on the ground to make the drones lighter?
Spooling from the drone prevents movement restriction due to entanglement.
EDIT: also, the drone may not need to support the weight of the spool but it does have to pull the KMs long fiber optic line behind it.
Why not have a spool on both ends?
Split the difference, spool in the middle
Spool remotely
Now you need to engineer Your fiber optic line to have enough tensile strength to support the entire spool.
I'll let the boffins sort that out, I'm the ideas guy
50ft out your line snags on a branch and now the entire spool on your controller is useless!
The entire length of the fiber would have to be dragged along with the drone if you did it that way. With the spool on the drone, the unspooled fiber falls to the ground and is stationary.