Posted on 03/18/2023 10:15:05 AM PDT by ShadowAce
These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything.
This is pretty cool.
pump for Zipline drones, but not for the Australian company that make very cheap, expendable cardboard drones, now in use in the Russian war on the West.
Zipline Press Kit for more information less hype. Company US locations are Utah and North Carolina.
https://www.flyzipline.com/press-kit
No information on how the company makes money or what it charges customers.
In the US, the FAA would kill it in a heartbeat.
Very cool. But...people will shoot them. Steal them. Etc. All the time.
Bunch of Paul Blarts....
Very neat. Thanks
You can do that with a $199 addition to a Mavic3.
It’s what the Ukrainians are using to drop grenades into Russian trenches.
That guy knows how to make a good video.
We not only see these fascinating remote hospital delivery drones but get a great quick look at modern Rwanda and its people.
Some really good news, and drones are really going to change things.
A headline torn from the pages of ClickBait ....
I didn’t watch, but I see other people talking about Zipline.
They are in use here, and they perform terribly. Constantly crashing or dropping packages. When they drop packages they tend to miss the mark quite a bit.
Arresting then is funny though! They just got them into nets.
The eco wackiness talk is annoying, but this is still cool. Great engineering.
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