While bourdon were busymucking up rescue fire rescue effortsacross the I-15 freeway last night , they were helping to redeem life history elsewhere . Yesterday , the very first FAA - approved drone obstetrical delivery drop down much - needed medical supplies to a rural popup hospital in southwest Virginia .
Wise County , Virginia ’s Remote Area Hospital opens every summertime to cover hundred of uninsured residents in the heart of Appalachia , one of our nation ’s most wiped out regions . Typically , drivers give birth medicament by making a 90 - hour tripper over jolty country route back and onward from the nearest pharmacy . But for the first time this year , the clinic ’s organizers make a bit of airborne assistance .
First , a NASA plane ( visualize above ) delivered medicine to Wise County regional airport . Then a trailer work by the Australian inauguration Flirtey ferried 24 packages out to the Wise County fairgrounds where the clinic was being held .
Flirtey , which already conducts poke delivery in New Zealand , called it a “ Kitty Hawk ” moment in a Twitter station on Friday :
Flirtey has just completed the first FAA approved drone bringing in the U.S. – a Kitty Hawk instant in Wise Virginia
— SkyDrop ( @GetSkyDrop)July 17 , 2015
nigh up of Flirtey rescue in Virginia today!pic.twitter.com/7genpCweHF
pitch success!!!pic.twitter.com / pm6mmTZQdh
Now that ’s a utilisation of bringing drones I call back we can all get behind !
[ NBC News ]
Top figure via NASA
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