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Ameriflight adds 35 heavy-duty cargo drones to wish list

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Three weeks after signing a tentative agreement for pilotless cargo planes made by startup Natilus,...

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Elroy Air tops $2B in purchase demand for Chaparral drone with LCI deal

Much attention has been directed toward Walmart, Amazon Prime Air and Alphabet subsidiary Wing’s forays into drone delivery — perhaps rightfully so given some of the things those companies have built in the past. But looking beyond drone delivery’s trio of titanic names, other firms are subtly carving out their own sizable presence in the space.

Take, for example, South San Francisco-based Elroy Air, which on Wednesday announced that it now has more than $2 billion worth of orders for Chaparral,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/elroy-air-tops-2b-in-purchase-demand-for-chaparral-drone-with-lci-deal

FedEx Express to test autonomous aircraft

FedEx to test Elroy Air autonomous drone

FedEx Express will test an autonomous air cargo aircraft in 2023, the company said Wednesday. Elroy Air, which has partnered with FedEx since January 2020, will supply the drone.

“FedEx was built on innovation and we are always looking toward new technologies to help enhance the logistics industry through improved safety, efficiency and customer service,” said Joe Stephens, senior vice president of global planning, engineering and technology at FedEx Express. “We look forward to continued...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-express-to-test-autonomous-aircraft

Truck Talk: Flying things edition

This week, we go airborne with the Workhorse Horsefly drone, consider a high-flying SPAC for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing jet maker and dive deeper into Cummins’ deal to make medium-duty engines for Daimler Truck.

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Gonna fly now

So much has been made of Workhorse Group’s losing out on the U.S. Postal Service contract for next-generation mail trucks that it was easy to overlook the update on the company’s truck-mounted...

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