Starting in early 2025, Windracers will partner with Aviation Sans Frontières to operate Windracers ULTRA™ – a self-flying cargo aircraft designed and manufactured in the UK – to deliver supplies for humanitarian organisations in Africa.
Windracers ULTRA MK2 aircraft will fly autonomously beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) to land with medical and other humanitarian supplies and collect urgent samples in places where there are few or no paved roads. It is designed to safely drop supplies using protective packaging and parachutes to remote locations as required.
“Aviation Sans Frontières was an early adopter of drones as a cost-effective and impactful means of delivering for humanitarian actors and today drones are at the core of Aviation Sans Frontières’s forward strategy,” said Christian Georlette, Chair of Aviation Sans Frontières International. “Working with Windracers, Aviation Sans Frontières ushers in the future of humanitarian and development aviation through use of Windracers ULTRA that carries sizeable payloads per trip at a lower cost while taking human pilots out of harm’s way.”
Stephen Wright, Founder and Group Executive Chairman of Windracers said ULTRA was developed specifically to provide a low-cost means of delivering humanitarian aid to hard-to-reach locations for people who need help the most. “This agreement with Aviation Sans Frontières completes the circle of ‘lab to life’ for Windracers ULTRA.”
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