@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoThe US FAA has given its first license to a company, Zipline, allowing them to fly drones autonomously.www.faa.govmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up118cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up118external-linkThe US FAA has given its first license to a company, Zipline, allowing them to fly drones autonomously.www.faa.gov@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square4fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoParachute? Last I talked to them, they were planning to lower payloads via a … well, kind of a Zipline.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 years agoZipline are hugely successful in Africa. The model there is to fly low & slow and drop the packages. https://impakter.com/how-drones-are-revolutionising-delivery-of-medicine/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoRight, but this was what they described to me as their plan for US operations: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23639425/zipline-drone-delivery-autonomous-tether-droid
Parachute? Last I talked to them, they were planning to lower payloads via a … well, kind of a Zipline.
Zipline are hugely successful in Africa. The model there is to fly low & slow and drop the packages.
https://impakter.com/how-drones-are-revolutionising-delivery-of-medicine/
Right, but this was what they described to me as their plan for US operations: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23639425/zipline-drone-delivery-autonomous-tether-droid