Watch Video: “Wing Drone Delivery Now Active in Charlotte, North Carolina”

Wing con­tin­ues to expand its drone deliv­ery ser­vice across Amer­i­ca with the lat­est cov­er­ing an area of Char­lotte City, North Car­oli­na.

Push to one side the reg­u­lar pub­lic com­plaints of Wing’s drones sound­ing like a swarm of whiny mos­qui­toes or the buzz of flies, the com­pa­ny keeps going, believ­ing that peo­ple will get used to this noise, just as they did when heli­copters first flew in the skies. 

The dif­fer­ence being these drones can hov­er less than 30 ft above homes locat­ed in sub­urbs and often can be deliv­er­ing to a small area up to 80 or more times a day. 

Some call it progress, focus­ing on the pos­i­tives like the rapid ser­vice of deliv­er­ing food, often with­in 15 min­utes of an inter­net order, bring­ing a new mean­ing to the phrase ‘con­ve­nience food’. 

Why should peo­ple have to leave their homes and dri­ve through poten­tial traf­fic con­ges­tion to a local super­mar­ket, when drones can do it all for you? Speed and con­ve­nience are the two buzz words for this grow­ing indus­try, yet noise will always remain an incon­ve­nient truth.

Leav­ing that aside, Wing’s part­ner­ship with Door­Dash (a com­pa­ny that con­nects local con­sumers and restau­rants with deliv­ery) con­tin­ues to grow  and Char­lotte is their lat­est tri­al ven­ture.

If you live with­in four miles of the Arbore­tum Shop­ping Cen­tre in the south of the city, the pub­lic can now have lunch deliv­ered via a drone. Items can include local del­i­ca­cies like Cur­ry Junc­tion, Joa Kore­an food, Matcha Cafe Maiko and Panera’s much loved mac & cheese, which can be deliv­ered to a Char­lotte doorstep by air for as lit­tle as USD1 dol­lar (a spe­cial lim­it­ed offer). Mean­while, there is a fleet of 18 drones at the ready, locat­ed next to the Cen­tre.

This new ser­vice is the lat­est step in Door­Dash and Wing’s col­lab­o­ra­tion, which first launched in Aus­tralia back in 2022 and has since touched down in var­i­ous parts of Vir­ginia and Texas.

Har­ri­son Shih, Head of Prod­uct at Door­Dash Labs, the company’s robot­ics and automa­tion divi­sion, enthused, “This isn’t just about cool tech — it’s about the expe­ri­ence. There’s some­thing spe­cial about watch­ing your Pan­era sand­wich arrive from the sky.”

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On the Door­Dash app, orders eli­gi­ble for deliv­ery show as a small drone icon. Choose your meal, con­firm your loca­tion and then cue the aer­i­al track­ing. Your food will be wing­ing its way to you in min­utes. Sim­ples!

Door­Dash Labs mis­sion is to make all things autonomous, from drones to side­walk bots, to cre­ate the ulti­mate deliv­ery net­work that’s fast, flex­i­ble and futur­is­tic.

North Car­oli­na is steeped in pio­neer­ing avi­a­tion his­to­ry, most notably broth­ers Wilbur and Orville Wright invent­ing and then fly­ing the first suc­cess­ful air­plane, the Fly­er, from atop of Kill Dev­il Hill in Kit­ty Hawk, NC in Decem­ber, 1903. This rev­o­lu­tion­ary inno­va­tion is a sta­ple in the state’s rich his­to­ry and the event is com­mem­o­rat­ed on the North Car­oli­na license plates by the words ‘First in Flight.’  Now Char­lotte is con­tin­u­ing this tra­di­tion via high-tech drone deliv­ery.

Adam Wood­worth, Wing CEO, com­ment­ed, “Char­lotte is a city that embraces tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions to big trans­porta­tion chal­lenges. We’re incred­i­bly excit­ed to launch here and grate­ful for the warm wel­come.”

But it’s not just restau­rant food embrac­ing the drone treat­ment. Char­lotte res­i­dents can also tap into Dash­Mart by Drone, a spe­cial ver­sion of DoorDash’s dig­i­tal con­ve­nience store. 

“Best near­by restau­rants open now in Char­lotte, North Car­oli­na”

Every­thing from snacks and drinks, to med­i­cine and health­care prod­ucts can be bought and gen­tly dropped from 30 ft above. And for a lim­it­ed time, locals can enjoy a pletho­ra of icon­ic Car­oli­na treats includ­ing Life Raft, Appalachia Cook­ie Co and Cheer­wine, deliv­ered by drone with the code DMBYDRONE.

For those lucky enough to live with­in four miles of the Arbore­tum shop­ping Cen­tre, click on this link and join the future. Just remem­ber to have a pair of earplugs at the ready: wing.com/charlotte .

For more infor­ma­tion

https://wing.com

https://www.doordash.com/en

(Images: Wing/DoorDash)

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