Air medical service provider Air Methods has partnered with German drone manufacturer Wingcopter to create a drone-based network that can fly medical supplies across the USA.
The new network, dubbed Spright, will help ease shortages of blood products, medicines, diagnostics, or small medical devices, Air Methods says. It will achieve this by deploying fleets of Wingcopter’s new flagship delivery drone, the Wingcopter 198.
With the proven technology and production capacity to create a nationwide network built around Air Methods’ existing infrastructure of over 300 bases, Wingcopter says Spright can serve hundreds of hospitals across 48 states in predominantly rural areas.
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