LEE-ON-SOLENT, England (Reuters) – A new drone service will reduce delivery times for urgent medical supplies to a hospital on the Isle of Wight, which lies about 8 kilometres off the south coast of England.
FILE PHOTO: A fixed-wing, twin-engined UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is seen in front of a hangar at Lee-on-Solent airport, Britain May, 12, 2020. REUTERS/Stuart McDill
The fixed-wing, twin-engined UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has a range of 1000 kilometres (620 miles) and can carry a payload of up to 100 kilos in a hold around the size of an estate car boot.
The aircraft can make the trip across the Solent, the water separating the island of 142,000 people from the mainland within about 10 minutes, much faster than the traditional ferry crossing, which takes about 30 minutes, and far cheaper than a normal flight.
“I like to think of it as a sort of Land Rover of the sky, a similar sort of niche in that it’s very robust, very tough, very easy to repair … very…
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