{"id":6286,"date":"2023-03-30T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:32:04","slug":"zipline-is-bringing-its-pioneering-remote-delivery-operations-even-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/zipline-is-bringing-its-pioneering-remote-delivery-operations-even-closer-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipline Is Bringing Its Pioneering Remote Delivery Operations Even Closer to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtKdLrJLZ5I\" width=\"740\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nZipline, reputedly the world\u2019s leader in remote medical supply delivery by drone,, has added an entirely new wrinkle to its operations:\u00a0 \u201cinstant delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Silicon Valley-based UAV company has been delivering vaccines, plasma supplies and bandages to villagers in rural Rwanda since 2016 and in Ghana and other African countries since 2020.\u00a0 It\u2019s about to add responsibility for supply deliveries in the capital of Kigali.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just Africa.\u00a0 Zipline is also operating in Japan and in select rural areas in the United States, most notably in small isolated towns in North Carolina and in difficult-to-reach high altitude areas outside Salt Lake City, Utah.\u00a0\u00a0 The company claims its flights have clocked over 40 million autonomous miles over the past seven years, which is about 80 times the distance. of a trip to the moon and back.<\/p>\n<p>But until now, all of those drones flights have been to designated landing sites \u2013 a hilltop, an open field or to a clearing in a forest \u2013 for a pick-up by a vehicle that carries the bulk supplies to their final destinations.\u00a0 That\u2019s about to change, Zipline says.\u00a0 For the first time, the company plans to make direct deliveries to private homes \u2013 literally to their doorstep, if need be.<\/p>\n<p>The shift to instant delivery will also require a change in Zipline\u2019s delivery system.\u00a0 In the past, Zipline was one of the few UAV firms to utilize fixed-wing drones to carry out its remote package deliveries.\u00a0 Its drones were able to fly at high speeds above large drop zones at 80-100 feet and could release their cargo to the ground, using a precision-guided parachute.\u00a0\u00a0 But in the new system, drones will hover in place over a drop zone at much higher altitudes \u2013 in fact, as high as 400 feet, the current FAA regulatory limit \u2013 and slowly lower their packages to the ground on a tether.\u00a0 Deliveries can be targeted more precisely to the individual consumer, company officials say.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN last week, Zipline CEO Rinaudo Clifton claimed his new drones will deliver packages seven times faster than electric road vehicles while also substantially reducing carbon emissions.\u00a0 Zipline drones also promise to be the quietest package delivery drones currently on the market, thanks in part to their high altitude flying, which keeps propeller noise at a distance but also to Zipline\u2019s patented propeller design which naturally reduces noise emissions even at lower altitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Zipline\u2019s promotional videos claim that the company\u2019s instant delivery system \u2013 which, in theory, eliminates the need for road vehicle support altogether \u2013 could lead to a revolution in drone \u201clast mile\u201d logistics.\u00a0 That remains to be seen.\u00a0 But the company\u2019s track record to date is unparalleled.\u00a0 When Zipline started in Rwanda seven years ago, the company made supply deliveries to just 21 rural hospitals.\u00a0 Today, that figure is 3,400.\u00a0 By the end of year, if current plans hold, Zipline will reach more than 10,000 hospitals not just in Africa, but across the world.\u00a0 No other remote delivery company can claim a comparable record of service and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Zipline, reputedly the world\u2019s leader in remote medical supply delivery by drone,, has added an entirely new wrinkle to its operations:\u00a0 \u201cinstant delivery.\u201d The Silicon Valley-based UAV company has been delivering vaccines, plasma supplies and bandages to villagers in rural Rwanda since 2016 and in Ghana and other African countries since 2020.\u00a0 It\u2019s about&#8230; 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