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DRONAMICS partners with Quickstep

for cargo drone manufacturing

n July 18, DRONAMICS
Oannounced its initial
strategic manufacturing
partnership at the Farnborough
International Airshow. The world's Cardinal Health
top aircraft manufacturers will
trust Quickstep Holdings Limited, launches on-
Australia's largest independent
aerospace composites company, demand drone
and a tier-one manufacturer.
The complete solution delivery with
partnership will help produce
DRONAMICS cargo drones. Over Svilen Rangelov, co-founder and CEO, DRONAMICS and Steve Osborne, Zipline
the next four years, hundreds of GM, Quickstep Holdings
Black Swan cargo drones will be Officer of DRONAMICS, says, "The challenging the status quo in ardinal Health and Zipline
produced annually, with the first first strategic manufacturing cargo mobility, we are thrilled to Chave announced that they
ones arriving in 2023, according partnership is a key milestone in have the support of an experi- have begun long-distance drone
to the long-term strategy. our mission to enable same-day enced partner like Quickstep to deliveries in North Carolina.
Konstantin Rangelov, Co- delivery for everyone, every- help us realize the full potential of Zipline received Part 135
Founder and Chief Technology where. As an innovator who is our solution." certification from the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA)
following a successful pilot phase.
Collins Aerospace to develop unmanned certain pharmaceutical products
Cardinal Health is delivering
flight ecosystem in Ireland and medical supplies to Cannon
Pharmacy Main, an independent
ollins Aerospace ate an end-to-end ecosystem Manna Drone Delivery, and pharmacy chain serving North
Chas been awarded at a vertiport in Shannon that Deep Blue will collaborate on Carolina locations, as part of this
a three-year funding will support safe unmanned ecosystem engineering in Ire- collaboration to help mitigate
grant from the European flight operations. The new land and France. These French, the risk of inventory stock-outs
Climate Infrastructure and ecosystem will make use of a Irish, and Italian companies and reduce barriers for patients
Environment Executive variety of products from the have formed the ÉAL-AER accessing the necessary products
Agency (EU CINEA) and the Collins Aerospace portfolio to (Irish for Escape-Air, Enhanced to meet their needs.
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking assist both conventional and Automation for U-Space/ATM "At Cardinal Health, we're
(JU) to develop an unmanned unmanned aircraft in safely integration) consortium with committed to working diligently
flight ecosystem in Ireland integrating their operations. Collins to support unmanned to help ensure our health care
through the delivery of a Future Mobility Campus aviation and U-Space capa- provider customers have access
Digital Sky Demonstrator on Ireland, Avtrain, Irish Aviation bilities in order to build the to the right medication at the
U-Space. Authority, Shannon Airport, future of air mobility. These right time for their patients, and
Collins Aerospace will capabilities will then be de- an effective distribution strategy
collaborate livered via SESAR 3 is required to make this happen,"
with several and additional said Josh Dolan, senior vice
Irish aviation European col- president, pharmaceutical opera-
companies to cre- laborative efforts. tions at Cardinal Health. "Through
our work with Zipline, we are
able to expand our world-class
distribution services with innova-
tive delivery methods that will
help our customers meet their
patient's evolving needs – now
and in the future."

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