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China answered Nepal's plea with four DJI FlyCart 100s flying up to 16 relief runs a day. The US put the same aircraft in a 100% tariff bracket on Sept. 3.
Nepal ran its first 220-pound cargo drone test four days after the flood and asked other countries for heavy-lift drones. China had 47 flying by Thursday.
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.
A DJI FlyCart 100 spent the 2026 Everest season hauling more than 22,000 pounds of oxygen, rope, ladders and trash across the Khumbu Icefall, cutting a deadly six-to-eight-hour Sherpa trek to an eight-minute drone flight.
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