However, the route has not yet been approved by the Civil Aviation Authority and the trial cannot start without permission.A spokeswoman told the BBC that the flight would take around ten minutes, significantly reducing delivery times between the Isle of Wight and mainland.
After goods have been dropped off at the airfield, they will be delivered to St Mary's hospital on the Isle of Wight by road.In March, the government gave £28m of funding to Solent Transport to help it create a"future transport zone" and test new ideas. That funding included over £8m for the company and the University of Southampton to develop the UK's first unmanned traffic-management system to integrate drone flights into normal air traffic control.
The NHS delivery trial will operate without this UTM, but it is still being developed as part of the overall project."The lack of a traffic-management system does raise questions as to how everything will be planned during delivery," Ravi Vaidyanathan, a robotics lecturer at Imperial College London, told the BBC."No matter what happens, they will learn a lot from it, which will accelerate the pace of development.
What's wrong with the ferry?
DavidGoodall12 Bull shit
Headline should. Read, France is about to be flooded with PPE.
Technology at its best
U have a experience already u show in Olympic 2012 ceremony today same thing happened
There’s a really regular ferry.
Nice innovation
Or use the effing great big ferries that sail there from Portsmouth, Lymington or Southampton which 100’s and 100’s of bloody great trucks do every day. Then use the shed loads of vans that operate there. But hey why deliver 10,000kgs when you can deliver 99995 less instead.
You are all surplus to requirements... STARTING TO SEE IT YET? TheGreatAwakening WWG1WGA
That should put a few pilots out of work
Maybe I've missed the point of this, but why bother faffing about with trials of new technology when you can just take supplies over by ferry.
Aren't the ferries running? 🤔
It will NOT STOP if You not do anything.
Confection.
Who is flying them....RAF?
Good. No human being should ever be forced to step foot on that desolate wasteland. Robot contact only from now on.