drone technology

Flytrex grows drone delivery service 150% with new FAA approval

Flytrex delivery drone

Sixty thousand people just became eligible to have chicken wings, submarine sandwiches, ice cream and more air-dropped straight into their backyards.

Israeli drone delivery firm Flytrex, which operates commercial services in both Texas and North Carolina, on Thursday announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has approved the doubling of its delivery radius from 1 to 2 nautical miles. That opens the service up to 100,000 people, a 150% increase over the 40,000 who were previously...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flytrex-grows-drone-delivery-service-150-with-new-faa-approval

Alphabet’s Wing unveils never-before-seen drone prototypes

Wing drone delivery schematic

You most likely wouldn’t use a sedan to carry a ton of gravel, nor would you enlist a flatbed truck to carry a single television set. 

For the most part, the transportation industry has solved the problem of matching the vehicle to the cargo for traditional modes like ocean shipping and trucking. But emerging modes, like drone delivery, are still working out the kinks.

Wing, the drone delivery arm of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), has been at the drawing board. The firm on Thursday unveiled the Aircraf...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/alphabets-wing-unveils-never-before-seen-drone-prototypes

Elroy Air to deliver 100 cargo drones to Bristow Group

Elroy Air and Bristow Chaparral model

Houston, we have liftoff.

Bristow Group (NYSE: VTOL), a Houston-based vertical flight services provider that operates drone delivery services in the region, has signed a letter of intent with drone firm Elroy Air to pre-order 100 of its autonomous, hybrid-electric Chaparral aircraft.

Bristow plans to use the Chaparral to move time-sensitive cargo for logistics, health care, energy and other applications. It will be the first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone dedicated to cargo to be...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/elroy-air-to-deliver-100-cargo-drones-to-bristow-group

Wing to begin US commercial drone deliveries in Texas this week

Alphabet drone delivery subsidiary Wing will launch its first commercial U.S. drone delivery service this week in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area

Following through on a partnership that was announced this past October, Alphabet drone subsidiary Wing and national retailer Walgreens are launching a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, marking Wing’s first commercially available U.S. drone delivery service.

The new offering, which will become available to tens of thousands of residents of the suburbs of Frisco and Little Elm beginning Monday, has been a long time coming for Wing. The company has been testing its...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wing-to-begin-us-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-texas-this-week

Wingcopter inks $16M deal with Spright for US medical drone deliveries

Wingcopter and Spright ink $16 million deal for medical drone delivery network

U.S. hospitals are in the midst of a massive shortage. Everything from latex gloves to lab testing equipment is in short supply at a time when demand is pushing the hospital system to its limit — as of Monday, nearly 80% of all U.S. inpatient hospital beds were in use, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

With no end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting equipment shortages, can drones deliver? Wingcopter is betting that they can. The German...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wingcopter-inks-16m-deal-with-spright-for-us-medical-drone-deliveries

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