drone delivery

The company has obtained a waiver for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations, allowing it to expand its service in College Station, Texas.

The company has a partnership with U.S.-based Spright, the drone delivery subsidiary of Air Methods, to deploy its Eiger drone worldwide.

The partners will begin flying out of a single Wendy’s location in Christiansburg, Virginia, with plans to expand the service to other U.S. cities later this year.

The drone delivery company will no longer be required to have a pilot or visual observer watch its aircraft in the sky.

The new design doesn’t yet have a name, but it’s built to carry orders the company requires two drones to deliver.

DJI, the largest consumer drone manufacturer in the world, confronts myriad restrictions from U.S. lawmakers fearing surveillance and Chinese dominance.

The retailer and partners Zipline and Wing will deliver to three-quarters of the area’s population using drones.

We attempt to solve that mystery and a few others in this week’s Future of FLYING newsletter.

Zipline plans to expand to the U.K., while Wing was approved for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights without visual observers.

Silent Arrow will scale up its cargo drone technology for a variant capable of carrying 1,000 pounds of payload a distance of more than 300 nm.