LONDON, Dec. 19, 2024 /CNW/ — Windracers right now introduced it has agreed to companion with Aviation Sans Frontières to function Windracers ULTRA™ – the low-cost self-flying cargo plane designed and manufactured within the UK – to ship provides for humanitarian organisations in Africa, ranging from early 2025.
Windracers ULTRA MK2 plane will fly autonomously past visible line of website (BVLOS) to:
- Land with medical and different humanitarian provides and accumulate pressing samples in locations the place there are few or no paved roads
- Safely drop provides utilizing protecting packaging and parachutes to distant areas as required
“Over forty years in the past, Aviation Sans Frontières created and proved the effectiveness of ‘mild plane’ missions the place humanitarian pilots and mechanics mobilized within the service of the poorest around the globe”, stated Christian Georlette, Chair of Aviation Sans Frontières Worldwide. “We affect individuals’s lives the place others don’t or now not go to fulfil our mission of offering a bespoke service for humanitarian affect.”
“Aviation Sans Frontières was an early adopter of drones as an economical and impactful technique of delivering for humanitarian actors and right now drones are on the core of Aviation Sans Frontières’s ahead technique. Working with Windracers, Aviation Sans Frontières ushers in the way forward for humanitarian and growth aviation via use of Windracers ULTRA that carries sizeable payloads per journey at a decrease value whereas taking human pilots out of hurt’s approach.”
“Logistics is the spine of humanitarian assist, typically representing 60 to 80% of bills relying on the sector of exercise,” stated Stephen Wright, Founder and Group Govt Chairman of Windracers. “We developed ULTRA with this actual concept in thoughts, to supply low-cost technique of delivering humanitarian assist to hard-to-reach areas for individuals who need assistance essentially the most. This settlement with Aviation Sans Frontières completes the circle of “lab to life” for Windracers ULTRA and I’m so very proud that the Windracers group may have the chance to ship on this mission in partnership with Aviation Sans Frontières.”
Windracers ULTRA is the world’s most completed long-distance heavy-lift cargo UAV out there right now. With a payload of over 100kg and a variety of 1,000 km, ULTRA has flown numerous BVLOS missions. Windracers ULTRA has flown reconnaissance and resupply in Ukraine, geological and wildlife surveying in Antarctica, parcel supply off the Scottish and English coasts, wildfire missions, and dropped medical provides by parachute. Out there as a service or a purchase order Windracers ULTRA has flown in Antarctica, North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and can quickly function in Africa.
Additional particulars can be launched by Aviation Sans Frontières and Windracers as the primary mission begins.
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