Skye Air Mobility partnered with Flipkart Health, a medical branch of Flipkart Internet, to deliver pharmaceuticals by drone. The collaboration began with the launch of BVLOS flights from the Flipkart Health warehouse in Baruipur, West Bengal, to several Health Buddy OTC sites in Kolkata and suburbs.
This initiative will see up to 20 (twenty) flights each day, each delivering a payload of up to 5 kgs of medications from the Warehouse to Health Buddy OTC locations around the region. The flight’s maximum aerial distance will be 16 kilometers. The testing will continue until September 8, 2022.
Ankit Kumar, CEO, Skye Air Mobility, said, “On India’s 75th Independence Day, here we celebrate the adoption of drone delivery technology to reach and benefit the masses. We are extremely proud on our collaboration with Flipkart Health to enable faster delivery of medicines to the citizens of West Bengal. Drones are faster, sustainable, more accessible, cost-effective to operate and capable of doing multiple deliveries in a day. With the ongoing BVLOS trials, we anticipate to gather more data on route, flight, cost-economic viability in order to develop models for commercial flights to begin in the next few months.”
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