Windracers has launched it has agreed to partner with Aviation Sans Frontières to operate Windracers ULTRA™ – the low-cost self-flying cargo plane designed and manufactured within the UK – to raise gives for humanitarian organisations in Africa, initiating from early 2025.
Windracers ULTRA MK2 plane will fly autonomously previous visual line of space (BVLOS) to:
- Land with clinical and other humanitarian gives and get pressing samples in locations the place there are few or no paved roads
- Safely fall gives the utilization of maintaining packaging and parachutes to some distance flung areas as required
“Over forty years ago, Aviation Sans Frontières created and proved the effectiveness of ‘gentle plane’ missions the place humanitarian pilots and mechanics mobilized within the carrier of the poorest within the future of the arena”, acknowledged Christian Georlette, Chair of Aviation Sans Frontières International. “We affect of us’s lives the place others don’t or no longer hunch to fulfil our mission of providing a bespoke carrier for humanitarian affect.”
“Aviation Sans Frontières became an early adopter of drones as a cost-efficient and impactful formula of turning in for humanitarian actors and lately drones are at the core of Aviation Sans Frontières’s forward approach. Working with Windracers, Aviation Sans Frontières ushers within the formula forward for humanitarian and vogue aviation through exhaust of Windracers ULTRA that carries sizeable payloads per outing at a decrease cost while taking human pilots out of effort’s formula.”
“Logistics is the backbone of humanitarian reduction, ceaselessly representing 60 to 80% of prices looking out on the sector of exercise,” acknowledged Stephen Wright, Founder and Crew Executive Chairman of Windracers. “We developed ULTRA with this trusty idea in mind, to provide low-cost formula of turning in humanitarian reduction to laborious-to-reach areas for of us that need support the most. This agreement with Aviation Sans Frontières completes the circle of “lab to lifestyles” for Windracers ULTRA and I’m so very proud that the Windracers crew will hang the chance to stay to it this mission in partnership with Aviation Sans Frontières.”
Windracers ULTRA is the arena’s most executed lengthy-distance heavy-preserve conclude cargo UAV accessible lately. With a payload of over 100kg and a selection of 1,000 km, ULTRA has flown limitless BVLOS missions. Windracers ULTRA has flown reconnaissance and resupply in Ukraine, geological and wildlife surveying in Antarctica, parcel provide off the Scottish and English coasts, wildfire missions, and dropped clinical gives by parachute. On hand as a carrier or a buy tell Windracers ULTRA has flown in Antarctica, North The United States, the UK, Europe and would possibly merely soon operate in Africa.
