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Wing Drone Delivery in Ireland is “Up Up and Away”

eVTOL Insights Editorial24 November 2022

Wing is really excited about drone delivery in Ireland. Not only does it offer the company a foot in the European door for 2023, but the Irish people show a real appetite for this futuristic business, especially after the recent trial successes of I...

Israel: National Drone Initiative invests ILS60 million in 10 Companies for Series of Major Trials

Chris Stonor24 November 2022

Israel’s National Drone Initiative is investing ILS60 million with 10 companies as part of a pilot project to examine the use of large cargo drones and passenger-carrying flying taxis in controlled airspace, reports israeldefense.co.il. The sum is e...

Abu Dhabi Airports Signs MOU with Groupe ADP to Accelerate AAM

Chris Stonor8 November 2022

Abu Dhabi Airports has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with French engineering and operations firm, Groupe ADP, to explore and accelerate the potential of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) in Abu Dhabi, reports TLME News Service. This s...

Hurricane Ian: Drone Deliveries Assist Stricken Floridians

Chris Stonor1 November 2022

The very best of “drones for good” has been on-show after areas of Florida were devastated on September 28th by the Category 4 Hurricane Ian, reports freightwaves.com. The residents of Sanibel Island, for example, were cut off from the Florida ma...

UK: Skyfarer, Medical Logistics Commence BVLOS Hospital Drone Deliveries

Chris Stonor31 October 2022

Skyfarer, a UK aerial co-ordinator company and Medical Logistics, a specialist healthcare courier organisation, have commenced a Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) drone trial, delivering “vital time-sensitive medical supplies” to hospitals via a s...

South Korea: Drone Delivery Trials Ramp-up

Chris Stonor27 October 2022

South Korea aims to be at the forefront of the green aviation movement with the goal of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) commercialisation in Seoul by 2025 and daily use of vertiports and drone hubs from 2030. Drone delivery remains a major and vital elemen...

Australia: Major Shopping Centre Developer Partners With Wing Drone Delivery

Chris Stonor25 October 2022

Australian-based shopping centre developer, Mirvac, has announced a partnership with Wing Drone Delivery to use its craft for urban retail centres, reports commercialrealestate.com. Australia is leading the way with ongoing Wing drone deliveries ...

Latest Update: Wing Drone Delivery Comes to Ireland

Chris Stonor20 October 2022

More details are emerging about Wing’s drone delivery foray into Ireland, after news broke late last week that the U.S-based company plans to compete with Manna Aero in the Dublin area. During the coming weeks, Wing will launch a small-scale demo...

Dronedek Expands Business, Now Partners with A2Z Drone Delivery

Chris Stonor20 October 2022

U.S-based Dronedek, known for its “Mailbox of the Future” tag, announced this week a collaboration with drone delivery company A2Z, reports a press release. This is the company’s 9th partner and comes on the back of recent deals with Speedy Eats and...

Wing Drone Delivery Moving in on Ireland and “Bobby Healy’s Manor”

Chris Stonor13 October 2022

Surprising news from the Irish media outlet, independent.ie, today that U.S-based drone delivery company, Wing, is launching trials next month close to Dublin. Ireland’s drone industry is synonymous with Bobby Healy and Manna Aero, so this news must...

Australia: Swoop Aero drones to deliver “rapid medical testing for Queenslanders”

Chris Stonor12 October 2022

Australia continues to be a leading light for using drone delivery and the latest development is a proposed transporting of pathology samples from the Moreton Bay islands to Mater Pathology testing labs in Brisbane under a new collaboration between ...

VIDEO: Watch “Pilot’s Eye View” of Scotland’s Angus medical delivery drone on trial flight from Stracathro to Dundee

Chris Stonor11 October 2022

Scotland is at the forefront of drone delivery trials and Scottish media outlet thecourier.co.uk scores a scoop for posting an intriguing 4 minute long video (sped up) of “a pilot’s eye view” of medical drone flights presently being trialled between...

Wingcopter Collaborate with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Chris Stonor4 October 2022

Wingcopter and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are trialing the potential of delivering consumer goods by drone to improve local supply in rural communities, reports a press release. The project called 'Drohnen-Lastenrad-Express-Beliefe...

Watch Fascinating Video: Bloomberg.com 4.30’ Take on Drone Delivery Zipline

eVTOL Insights Editorial3 October 2022

Under the heading “Zipline Taps Power of Sound to Get Retailer Drones Airborne”, Bloomberg.com journalist, Ed Ludlow, reports on how Zipline is using sound-based technology to make drone-delivery groceries a reality in this 4.30' video interview. Ke...

Watch Video: Singapore F-Drones Announces Agreement with Hafnia Tankers for Maritime delivery

eVTOL Insights Editorial30 September 2022

While Singapore and its surround is touted as a future global leader of eVTOL operations, drone delivery is very much on the ascendancy too in the region. F-Drones is, perhaps, the best known within the delivery sector, where it began trials back...

Sabrewing’s Rhaegal Cargo UAV Smashes World Record Payload on First Flight

Chris Stonor29 September 2022

California-based, Sabrewing, announced this week that its RH-1-A Rhaegal (pronounced Rye-gull) VTOL air cargo drone has achieved its first hover flight while lifting a record-setting payload, reports a press release. The pre-production air vehicl...

Wing Drone Delivery Noise: Australians complain, “It’s gone too far!”

Chris Stonor28 September 2022

Some residents from Logan, Brisbane have had enough of Wing’s delivery drones flying over their homes, on occasions close to eighty times a day, reports Australian Channel 9 program, ‘A Current Affair’. “They are very very noisy,” says one resident....

DriveOhio’s “Vertiport Innovation Challenge” Focuses on STEM Outreach in Schools

eVTOL Insights Editorial15 September 2022

DriveOhio has collaborated with Northeast Ohio’s ‘Mastery School of Hawken’ to launch its latest Vertiport Innovation Challenge, reports a press release. Employing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) skills, students are to focus on ide...

Watch Video: Dronamics cargo deliveries to be “several times cheaper than existing air freight”

eVTOL Insights Editorial14 September 2022

Watch this Robin Riedel 8.30’ interview (link below) with co-founder and CEO of Dronamics cargo drone carrier, Svilen Rangelov. The company was founded eight years ago and is renowned for its Black Swan drone that can carry up to 350 kg in weight an...

Matternet M2 Delivery Drone: World’s first to be issued FAA Type Certification – design deemed safe for commercial use

Chris Stonor12 September 2022

The drone delivery industry reached a major and key regulatory milestone last week when Matternet announced its M2 had been issued with an FAA Type certification, allowing its quadcopter to be deployed for commercial use, reports a press release. Th...

UK’s First Medical Drone Delivery Network Begins Next Phase

eVTOL Insights Editorial7 September 2022

A consortium involving Strathclyde researchers which is delivering the UK’s first medical distribution network by drone has launched its next phase, reports a press release. Last month, the CAELUS (Care and Equity, Healthcare Logistics UAS Scotla...

Zipline and Jumia collaborate to pioneer drone delivery of thousands of products to millions of homes across Africa

Chris Stonor6 September 2022

Zipline, a leading drone delivery company and Jumia, a major African e-commerce platform, announced last week a partnership to deliver many thousands of different products by drone to people’s homes across Africa, reports a press release. A pilot pr...

Global Delivery Drone industry to reach USD18.77 billion by 2026

Chris Stonor30 August 2022

While evtolinsights.com focuses primarily on flying taxis, the drone delivery market, especially when used for transporting vital medical healthcare products, is also a significant and rapidly expanding industry. Last week, a report by the UK-bas...

A First in Europe: Belgian hospitals trial delivery drones to speed up transportation of human tissue

eVTOL Insights Editorial25 August 2022

Belgian hospitals have started trialing a drone delivering human tissue samples between patients on the operating table and medical laboratories, to save time. This is a first in Europe, reports france24.com. On Tuesday (August 23rd), a drone flo...