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Zipline at HMB Airport: Can Now Drop Blood, Vaccines and Anit-Venom Anywhere at 100km/hour

September 29, 2021 by Michelle Leave a Comment

VIDEO. Zipline has designed 7 generations of drones in 5 years:

“Instantly anywhere. Zipline delivers vital shipments via the fastest, most reliable autonomous aircraft delivery service in the world.”

Video from Seeker You Tube channel.

Thanks to Coastside Buzz follower, Celina Lopez, for the link.

 

Zipline engineers designed a fleet of autonomous drones that deliver medical supplies to remote hospitals in minutes. Seeker takes a look at their testing facility in Half Moon Bay, California and learn how they build this innovative technology from scratch
Read More: A Tech Company Engineered Drones to Deliver Vital COVID-19 Medical Supplies to Rural Ghana and Rwanda in Minutes https://www.businessinsider.com/zipli…
When It Comes To Sensible Drone Policy Africa Leads The Way https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewch…

More on Seeker on Drones

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MightyFly Drone Performs Tethered Test Flights at HMB Airport; Good For Disaster Deliveries?

FEBRUARY 16, 2021 BY MICHELLE 1 COMMENT (EDIT)

PRESS RELEASE. From San Mateo County Manager’s Office 2/2021 on Nextdoor.


MightyFly Drone Company at the Half Moon Bay Airport.

You may have noticed some drone activity at the Half Moon Bay Airport lately.

This is MightyFly, currently performing controlled and tethered test flights at the Half Moon Bay airport under the approval of both the Federal Aviation Administration and the Half Moon Bay airport.

What is MightyFly?

MightyFly is developing the future of logistics, freeing the flow of goods from flat 2D constraints into using the open 3D airspace all around us.

MightyFly aims to improve expedited deliveries by making them faster, more affordable, and eco-friendly.

With its autonomous vertical take-off and landing cargo aircraft capable of carrying up to 500lbs across a 600 mile range, MightyFly is ensuring that goods from urgent medical supplies to everyday items can be shipped safely and efficiently.

 

Learn more here: https://mightyflying.com/.

 

Local AgencyCounty Manager’s Office Christa BigueCounty of San Mateo

 

Expedited Delivery Service

  • Low Cost
  • Carbon Neutral
  • High Speed: 150 mph
  • Long Range: 600 miles
  • Large cargo capacity: 500lbs, Small 100lbs
  • Multi Package
  • Zero infrastructure
  • Rapid Deployment

 

Hybrid VTOL Unmmaned Aircraft

  • Fully Autonomous
  • Electric Vertical Takeoff And Landing
  • Long Range
  • Safe
  • Reliable

Instant access to goods

MightyFly is revolutionizing the logistics market with a delivery service that is both 10x cheaper and 10x faster.
MightyFly provides deliveries with high speed cargo autonomous aircraft with 600 miles of range and 200 lbs of cargo capacity.
MightyFly specializes in expedited deliveries for both businesses and consumers across all industry sectors.
MightyFly’s co-founders are Manal Habib and Scott Parker.
Manal is a passionate MIT/Stanford aerospace engineer. She previously led flight controls at Zipline and developed the first robust commercial flight controller. She is also a private pilot and building her own airplane.
Scott has designed and brought to life over a dozen unmanned aircraft, lead engineering and product teams and established offshore manufacturing. He was Zipline’s Senior Mechanical Engineer for 3 years.

 

From the Imperial War Museum website.

Click for historical drone pictures.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are aircraft with no on-board crew or passengers. They can be automated ‘drones’ or remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). UAV’s can fly for long periods of time at a controlled level of speed and height and have a role in many aspects of aviation.

The first pilotless vehicles were developed in Britain and the USA during the First World War. Britain’s Aerial Target, a small radio-controlled aircraft, was first tested in March 1917 while the American aerial torpedo known as the Kettering Bug first flew in October 1918. Although both showed promise in flight tests, neither were used operationally during the war.

During the inter-war period the development and testing of unmanned aircraft continued. In 1935 the British produced a number of radio-controlled aircraft to be used as targets for training purposes. It’s thought the term ‘drone’ started to be used at this time, inspired by the name of one of these models, the DH.82B Queen Bee. Radio-controlled drones were also manufactured in the United States and used for target practice and training.

 

The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, with Captain The Right Honourable David Margesson, Secretary of State for War, watching preparations being made in an unspecified UK location for the launch of a De Havilland Queen Bee seaplane L5984 from its ramp. The Queen Bee pilotless target drone was a radio-controlled version of the Tiger Moth trainer.

Reconnaissance UAVs were first deployed on a large scale in the Vietnam War. Drones also began to be used in a range of new roles, such as acting as decoys in combat, launching missiles against fixed targets and dropping leaflets for psychological operations.

Following the Vietnam War other countries outside of Britain and the United States began to explore unmanned aerial technology. New models became more sophisticated, with improved endurance and the ability to maintain greater height. In recent years models have been developed that use technology such as solar power to tackle the problem of fuelling longer flights.

Drones now have many functions, ranging from monitoring climate change to carrying out search operations after natural disasters, photography, filming, and delivering goods. But their most well-known and controversial use is by the military for reconnaissance, surveillance and targeted attacks. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States in particular has significantly increased its use of drones. They are mostly used for surveillance in areas and terrains where troops are unable to safely go. But they are also used as weapons and have been credited with killing suspected militants. Their use in current conflicts and over some countries has raised questions about the ethics of this kind of weaponry, especially when it results in civilian deaths, either due to inaccurate data or because of their proximity to a ‘target’.

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We are an emergency preparedness volunteer organization focused on creating a ready and resilient community along the San Francisco Bay Area coast from the southern side of the Tom Lantos Tunnel (Devil’s Slide) to Tunitas Creek Road.

Emergency Prep Resources

The average Coastsider may not be aware of the many emergency preparation resources available to us! Here’s a list of many of those resources.

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KHMB Radio AM 1710 and FM 100.9 is our local Emergency Radio Station. You would still want to tune in to KCBS for Bay Area wide emergency news.  Make sure you have a radio!
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From Waddell Creek to Devil’s Slide and up to Skyline are 4 Branches of emergency prepared coastside citizens that are forming. They include many emergency disciplines.
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Trainings are offered a couple of times per year up and down the coast CERT volunteers are forming Neighborhood Watches to help their neighbors get prepared.
Go to: FEMA page on CERT

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Charise McHugh of the Half Moon bay Chamber of Commerce has worked for several years to organize businesses on the coastside in an emergency via the Coastside Emergency Action Plan). If you are a business and have not already participated, please contact the Chamber. In an emergency we need to know where our resources are and how to deploy materiel, and how to get refunded by FEMA.
Go to: HMB Chamber Page on CEAP

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It is a free alert system that will come to your cell phone, your tablet or computer, or all three. There is no charge, although your carrier may charge for texts. This is the best way to stay on top of traffic accidents.
Go to: SMCAlert.info to sign up

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Doctors and nurses work together to become the backbone of an emergency medical situation. Coastside Emergency Experts will tell you that the Coastside will be on its own in a major earthquake disaster for 5-7 days. And we no longer have a Medical Reserve Corps on the Coastside! Contact mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you are interested in creating a new chapter.

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ARES—Amateur Radio Emergency Service—of Half Moon Bay
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We have several Red Cross trailers on the Coast. Take a Red Cross class so you can help in one the shelters during a disaster.
Go to: Sign up for a class or Contact Local Red Cross volunteer Jim Holley

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Go to: NextDoor.com to sign up.


michelleMichelle Dragony, founder of CoastsideBUZZ.com, is also a civilian CERT trainer working with Dave Cosgrave, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of Half Moon Bay, and Ari Delay, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of La Honda. Email here at mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you have any questions.

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