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Special Delivery — Zipline’s fixed-wing drones deliver life-saving supplies
Show above, Zipline team at their 250-acre test site on the San Francisco Peninsula. Note the catapult rail launcher. A San Francisco-based company, Zipline is in the process of starting a new distribution method in Rwanda: delivery by drone. And instead of pizzas, packages, or proposals, Zip (the drone) will deliver between 50 and 150 lifesaving medicine and blood products a day. By partnering with The UPS Foundation, the shipping giant's charitable wing, and GAVI,...
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