1200 meters height put the drone at its test flight back to Upper Bavaria Alm. Benefits could be the delivery method offer especially for sparsely populated areas. In addition, the delivery time is less.
After initial difficulties, it is Deutsche Post DHL according to information managed the world’s first provider customers directly via the delivery of packets integrate drone. From January to March sender and addressee would send to the packing station SkyPort in Upper Bavaria Reit im Winkl packages via drone and can receive, DHL announced in Bonn on Monday. At 130 independent loading and unloading higher loads, longer distances and the delivery of a mountain region also have been successfully tested under difficult conditions by drone.
to Alm at 1200m put From the valley the package drone loudly DHL per route a distance of eight kilometers back. “Urgent drugs or short-run sports were able to come in just eight minutes,” the report said. “We are the world’s first that can use a transport drone for an end-user access,” said DHL CEO Frank Appel. In the coming months the company will evaluate the data collected and then decide on possible further test areas.
Amazon and Google also have to deal with aircraft
with the drone, the parcels will especially in sparsely populated areas of the supply air to a pack station. Test flights there as early as 2013 over the Rhine in Bonn and 2014 in the North Sea. The German Post DHL Group, to the DHL, employs claims to world 500, 000 employees and generated 2015 sales of almost 60 billion euros.
Also, the world’s largest online retailer Amazon has been working for years with the topic. Google developed small aircraft, the goods can let down on a rope. In the US, also thinks the supermarket giant Wal-Mart to over drone deliveries.
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