Drone Delivery

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...

“Manna is the only business I’ve started that keeps me awake at night, but it is also the most fun — its potential is phenomenal” (Bobby Healy, Manna Drone Delivery)

Chris Stonor24 August 2022

In the second of evtolinsights.com series of articles looking at eVTOL and drone developments in Ireland, we interview Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of drone delivery company, Manna. This is Healy’s fourth successful startup. Formed in late 2018, the...

Windracers announces successful third funding round from UKRI’s Future Flight

eVTOL Insights Editorial17 August 2022

Cargo drone developer Windracers has achieved a successful third round of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Future Flight challenge, a program that finances technological advancements, reports dronelife.com. Future Flight’s phase 3...

Amazon Drone Delivery Back on Track or More “Cry Wolf?”

Chris Stonor15 August 2022

Four years ago Amazon had promised a dream. To be delivering packages by drones to your front door in 2018. Futurists and drone enthusiasts were titillated and excited by this prospect, while road delivery companies quaked in their boots. Yet not...

Stamp of Approval: NASA Chooses Zipline to explore “Operations of Autonomous Fleets”

eVTOL Insights Editorial4 August 2022

Zipline, a leader in the “Drones for Good” sector, delivering medicines and health-care products primarily around Africa, has been given a major stamp of approval by NASA, reports a press release. The Space Administration Agency has chosen Zipline t...

Boots first UK chemist to deliver prescription medicines by drone, flies drugs to Isle of Wight

eVTOL Insights Editorial28 July 2022

Boots has become the first community pharmacy in the UK to deliver prescription medicines by drone, reports a press release. The retailer flew medicines from the British Army's Baker Barracks on Thorney Island to St Mary's Hospital in Newport, Is...

Urban-Air Port to accelerate drone delivery infrastructure in Sweden

Jason Pritchard22 April 2022

Urban-Air Port has partnered with the City of Skellefteå, Skellefteå Airport and Skanska in Sweden in order to integrate infrastructure for drone deliveries at Hammarängen. Northvolt, Europe’s largest electric battery production facility, i...

SYNERJET Corp becomes latest company to invest in Wingcopter’s eVTOL drone technology as it targets the healthcare sector

Jason Pritchard16 December 2021

German drone delivery startup Wingcopter has secured investment from SYNERJET Corp, a leading business aviation specialist in Latin America with operations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Panama. SYNERJET has made the inve...

Skyports teams up with Massachusetts DOT to show how drone services can link communities across Cape Cod region

Jason Pritchard10 December 2021

Skyports has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) Aeronautics Division to demonstrate how its drone services could link communities across the Cape Cod region in the US state. MassDOT is investigating the uses...

eVTOL Insights Podcast: Julie Garland of Avtrain talks about certifying drones and an exciting proof-of-concept trial in Ireland

Jason Pritchard7 October 2021

The next episode from the eVTOL Insights Podcast is live and we were delighted to be joined by Julie Garland, CEO of Avtrain. Avtrain is Europe’s leading drone training and certification body and its mission is to encourage prolific drone operat...

Swoop Aero and Skyports extend partnership to take drone deliveries to new heights across Europe and the Americas

Jason Pritchard19 August 2021

Australian drone logistics company Swoop Aero and Skyports are extending their partnership to deploy drone delivery networks across the Americas and Europe, after the resounding success in contributing to the UK’s National Health Service COVID-19 re...

Eight ways drones are changing the world: Flock talks to industry experts to find out how

Jason Pritchard18 August 2021

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Commentary by Tomas Pribanic of Undefined Technologies: Would commercial drones overcome noise restrictions for the same-hour delivery?

Jason Pritchard22 July 2021

In this commentary by Tomas Pribanic, Founder and CEO of Undefined Technologies, he explores the problem of noise pollution and urban restrictions for drone delivery. The company is a Florida-based tech startup developing its first-ever sile...