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UPS feeder airline Ameriflight is to purchase 20 Natilus Kona cargo drones, swelling the orderbook for the still theoretical aircraft to $6.8bn.
The Kona, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), bearing a design markedly similar to the NASA X-48B blended-wing prototype, is designed to carry more cargo than a tubular aircraft of the same dimensions, Natilus says.
It claims the Kona could carry 4.3 tonnes over 900 nautical miles, using twin Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop engines.
The designer also claims a lack of ...
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Pichuiyer Balasubramanian
February 02, 2023 at 5:57 amThe entire freight world will keenly looking at the progress of Natilus and Dronamics in the coming days. Good news for air cargo – it will bring in more visibility to air cargo as such than we what we have seen so far, including the brief ‘stardom’ during the covid period.