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Wing delivery drone lowering a Walmart order in Central Florida

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Walmart Already Owns The Drone Network Amazon Wants

Wing and Walmart launched drone delivery for more than 50,000 Central Florida addresses, extending a store network Amazon cannot easily match.

Rafael SuárezJul 31

Aerial view of Port Gallice marina and yachts along the French Riviera

Flyde Beluga

Flyde Starts $57 Drone Delivery to French Riviera Yachts on August 1

Flyde will launch drone deliveries from Port Gallice to yachts anchored off the French Riviera on August 1, carrying up to 17.6 pounds by winch for $57 per flight.

Rafael SuárezJul 30

Close-up of the white and red DoorDash delivery drone body

Part 135

DoorDash Just Became An Airline, And The Video Shows A Bigger Drone Than It Will Admit

DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air. The company says aircraft details come later, but its own video already shows the airframe and the propulsion testing.

Haye KestelooJul 29

Flytrex

Flytrex Handed Order Routing To Nash, And The Drone Became One Lane Among Many

Flytrex integrated Nash's routing engine across all its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash now decides which orders fly and which go to a human courier.

Haye KestelooJul 29

Wing delivery drone flying above palm trees

Drone Delivery

Wing Launches Walmart Drone Delivery In Orlando, Two Years After DroneUp Quit Florida

Wing opened its first Florida market with Walmart in Greater Orlando today, in a state where Walmart's previous drone delivery program shut down in 2024 when the economics stopped working.

Haye KestelooJul 29

Freefly

Freefly Flies Ama Dablam After Nepal Blocked Everest Bid

Freefly's Alta X Gen 2 completed high-altitude cargo flights on Ama Dablam after Nepal denied its Everest test permit, highlighting the regulatory asymmetry with DJI's quickly reinstated FlyCart 100.

Rafael SuárezJul 28

Zipline

Zipline Walmart Drone Parachutes Into Greenville, Texas Street, Landing Feet From A Parked Truck

A Zipline delivery drone flying for Walmart deployed its emergency parachute over a Greenville, Texas neighborhood on Sunday, July 26, and drifted down onto a residential street near Roy Warren Parkway and Joe Ramsey Boulevard, coming to rest about three feet from a parked pickup truck. Nobody was hurt, and a Walmart employee showed up quickly…

Haye KestelooJul 27

Mountain Horse Talon DT-300 heavy-lift drone carrying a suspended cargo bundle in flight

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Mountain Horse Talon DT-300 Puts 100 Pounds on Blue UAS List

Mountain Horse Solutions is pitching the Talon DT-300 Drone Plus to U.S. government buyers with a simple argument: this fully electric tandem-rotor VTOL can lift 100 pounds and already sits on the Pentagon's Blue UAS Cleared List.

Rafael SuárezJul 21

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