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For the first time worldwide, medications and other urgently needed goods will be delivered to the island at certain times of the day by DHL parcelcopter.
The medications for the transport can be ordered from the research project’s collaboration partner on Juist, Seehund pharmacy.
Once the project takes off, vacationers and island residents can find out more about how they can place orders thanks to the research project at www.dhl.de/paketkopter .
One of the institute’s areas of specialization is the safe and robust operation of unmanned aircraft for very different missions under challenging environmental and weather conditions.
“With the DHL parc
Company: DHL, Activity: DHL, Date: 2014-09-24
Keywords: news, shipping, dhl, shippers, parcelcopters, parcelcopter, aircraft, unmanned, test, partner, project, parcel, research, release, press

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The medications for the transport can be ordered from the research project’s collaboration partner on Juist, Seehund pharmacy. Once the project takes off, vacationers and island residents can find out more about how they can place orders thanks to the research project at www.dhl.de/paketkopter . Since the parcelcopter’s first test flights, during which medications were transported from one bank of the Rhine River in Bonn to the other, DHL Parcel has systematically proceeded forward with the research project and expanded collaboration with its competent research and development partners: The Institute for Flight System Dynamics at RWTH Aachen University is new to the project team. It focuses on the optimization, modeling, simulation and control of highly automated aircraft. One of the institute’s areas of specialization is the safe and robust operation of unmanned aircraft for very different missions under challenging environmental and weather conditions.”With the DHL parcelcopter, an unmanned aircraft operating outside the controller’s field of vision will perform deliveries for the first time in a real-world mission. Without the extremely high level of willingness to innovate and to find solutions exhibited by the involved agencies, communities and the Wattenmeer administrative unit of Lower Saxony, such a project would not be possible,” Jürgen Gerdes emphasized.Another important development partner is Microdrones GmbH, one of the leading providers of automated copters. It has been involved in the project from the very beginning and developed the DHL parcelcopter on the basis of one of its flight platforms.Currently, there are no specific plans to use the DHL parcelcopter in normal parcel delivery operations. This phase of the research project will test and evaluate the possibilities of such delivery methods. To the extent that it is technically feasible and economically sensible, the use of parcelcopters to deliver urgently needed goods to thinly populated or remote areas or in emergencies is an interesting option for the future.

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Company: DHL, Activity: DHL, Date: 2014-09-24
Keywords: news, shipping, dhl, shippers, parcelcopters, parcelcopter, aircraft, unmanned, test, partner, project, parcel, research, release, press

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