Gadgetory

since we started operating our first system in Rwanda more than a year ago now we've been designing our next generation system from the ground up incorporating all that experience of that first operation and so we redesigned pretty much everything about the plane and our ground systems to support scaled operations so instead of being able to do 50 fly today we want to be able to do 500 fly today from a single distribution center we pulled the blood or the medical product for that order put it in a package put that package into a zip and launch that zip the aircraft weighs 20 kilograms about 4045 pounds could be spinning motors and long chains of any 138 it has about 10 foot wingspan 3 meters and it can carry about 3 pounds 1.75 kilograms the plane is measuring actively the wind speed and the direction and so if the winds blowing in a particular direction it's going to compensate and drop that package so it lands on the ground right where you want it we can hit an area about the size of two parking spots it looks like a kind of like a cake box with a paper parachute on top a fixed-wing aircraft can fly dramatically farther than something like a quadcopter and that's really important for what we do it can fly faster it can fly through heavier weather and the approaches to things like safety are also much easier on our aircraft for example we have multiple motors right the plane if either one of those stops working the plane flies just fine we're in Rwanda today and we're expanding to cover the other half of Rwanda as we speak and next is Tanzania from there we are really focused on solving this problem access to medical products at a global scale there's access to medical product problems in the US and in developing world and we really want to solve all of those problems everywhere