Skye Air to demonstrate BVLOS flight at Drone Festival
Will display how life-saving medical items such as blood, vaccines and medicines can be delivered using drones during the event at Dharamshala
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Hyderabad: Covid-19 has made hospitals to be handy with prescribed medicines, vaccines to curb the spread of disease further as it was daunting task to run from pillar to post in the initial stages, where hundreds of patients families were crying for requirements. To avoid such difficulties, Skye Air Mobility from Delhi is participating in the Drone Festival at Dharamshala on Dec 14, 2021. It has conducted 175 BVLOS flights of critical healthcare supplies such as vaccines, medicines and blood via drones within 21 days.
The company will showcase its capability and products at the event, where Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Jai Ram Thakur along with the Technical Education Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Ram Lal Markanda will be present.
Skye Air will demonstrate autonomous BVLOS flight from SAI Sports Ground to Medical College Hospital covering a distance of nearly 12 km (aerial) in Himachal Pradesh. The flights will be carrying vaccines and medicines by its customized small category drone named Skye Ship One.
Swapnik Jakkampudi, Co-founder Skye Air said: "We are happy to showcase our expertise at the Drone Festival, Dharamshala. The aim of this participation is to showcase the efficiency of drones, as how life-saving medical items such as blood, vaccines and medicines can be delivered more rapidly compared to by road. By participating in events like these we want to show to the nation how this technology will soon be a game changer."
Recently Skye Air has participated in the Telangana's Medicine from the Sky project. The trials had witnessed several autonomous long range flights by Skye Air.
