Delivery company UPS launches UAV from trucks

Delivery company UPS has become the latest concern to experiment with schlepping stuff about by drone, instead of wheeled vehicles.

But UPS isn’t interested in sending drones out from its warehouse. Instead, the company’s ‘ experiment saw it launch an unnamed aerial vehicle from one of its familiar big brown trucks, an effort it says is designed to give it a way of avoiding driving to remote destinations.

Or as senior veep for global engineering and sustainability Mark Wallace put it: “Imagine a triangular delivery route where the stops are miles apart by road. Sending a drone from a package car to make just one of those deliveries can reduce costly miles driven.”

Strat Aero PLC (LON:AERO) is a multi-divisional international aerospace services company, focussed primarily on the provision of complete client solutions in the Unmanned Aerial System (‘UAS’ market), which is predicted to show exponential growth over the coming decade.  Commercial and military applications in UASs are expected to be a dynamic growth sector in the aerospace industry over the next 10 years with the UAS market forecast to grow to more than US$82.1 billion between 2015 and 2025 (AUVSI Economic Report 2013) and the global airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (‘ISR’) market estimated to grow to US$19.23 billion by 2023. 
Click to view all articles for the EPIC:
Or click to view the full company profile:
    Facebook
    Twitter
    LinkedIn
    Strat Aero Plc

    More articles like this

    Strat Aero Plc

    Council-owned company to bring drone services in-house

    Council-owned company to bring drone services in-house. Oxford Direct Services is to become the first council owned organisation to bring drone services in-house to save time and money. ODS, the service delivery and commercial arm of

    Strat Aero Plc

    How Drones are Revolutionising Construction and Real Estate

    As the head of a 700-year-old winemaking dynasty, Lamberto Frescobaldi is overseeing a construction project in one of his Tuscany vineyards using technology that would have seemed otherworldly to his ancestors, high-flying drones. Ubiquitous as toys

    Strat Aero Plc

    Strat Aero PLC Gains controlling interest in GyroMetric

    Strat Aero Plc (LON:AERO) has today announced that it has reached agreement to acquire a further 228,000 ordinary shares in GyroMetric Systems Limited from Braveheart Investment Group plc. The consideration of £273,600 will be satisfied by

    Strat Aero Plc

    Drones to help with potato vine kill

    Flying drones can help potato farmers in making vine desiccation decisions by mapping their crops before applying herbicides. Trials of potato crops at Potatoes in Practice conference last week showed how growers could tailor the water

    Strat Aero Plc

    Global UAV Flies Drone Using 4G Cellular Network

    Global UAV successfully flew an unmanned aircraft system using the 4G cellular network for command and control and flight data telemetry feedback. NOVAerial Robotics Inc., the company’s research & development, engineering and manufacturing division, completed the

    Strat Aero Plc

    6 Awesome Ways Drones Are Being Used Today

    Just a few years back, you would never have heard of the term “drone” with a very positive connotation. Whenever there was any talk of drones, you thought of wars, attacks on terrorists, and spying of

    Strat Aero Plc

    How tech is revolutionising the mining industry

    The use of controlled explosives is vital in mines but it can be deadly if they are handled wrongly. If miners do not make accurate measurements or choose the right spots to place explosives, rocks can

    Strat Aero Plc

    Strat Aero PLC Look forward to the future with optimism

    Strat Aero PLC (LON:AERO) Chairman Nigel Burton will make the following statement at today’s AGM The Company’s principal subsidiary, Geocurve Limited, is making excellent progress towards delivering the first phase of the multi-sensor surveying and data

    DirectorsTalk

    Drones cut time and risk for land surveyers

    No longer just a hi-tech toy, drones are becoming an indispensable tool in helping understand the lay of the land. Surveyors said that unmanned aerial vehicles have become a common piece of equipment within their industry