Wings for Aid
Wings for Aid
Unmanned cargo aircraft prototype to bring humanitarian aid to remote areas
Unmanned cargo aircraft prototype to bring humanitarian aid to remote areas. It can be used for disaster relief, but also for the scheduled delivery of medicines.
Remote areas of the world.
Caribbean, due to hurricanes and earthquakes.
Remote areas in Africa , for scheduled delivery of weekly quantities of medicines to health clinics in villages.
Technology: ESA incubates AvioniCS and Selfly.
Industrial design: VanBerlo
Last mile in medicine distribution: i+solutions
Academia: technical universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente
Practitioners from the Red Cross movement.
Application scenarios: humanitarian aid organisations, Dutch Ministry of Defence
Advisor: Price Waterhouse Coopers
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Humanitarian organizations, Government, NGOs