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Wingcopter, ITOCHU and ANA Test Drone-Based Transport of Research Blood in Japan

ITOCHU Corporation, Wingcopter‘s partner in Japan, haa tested the transport of research blood1 using Wingcopter’s delivery drone in a research project. Together with ANA Holdings and the local blood center of the Japanese Red Cross, research blood was flown between the cities of Urasoe and Nago in Okinawa Prefecture. Continue reading

Baykar Acquires Piaggio Aerospace

The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy has authorized the Extraordinary Commissioners of Piaggio Aero Industries and Piaggio Aviation – the two companies in extraordinary administration that operate under the Piaggio Aerospace brand – to proceed with the sale of all the business complexes conducted to the Turkish company Baykar MakinaSanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (“Baykar”), a leading company in the development and production of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) systems and advanced aerospace technologies. Continue reading