Monday, September 09, 2024

UPS Flight Forward carries out first drone flight

UPS Flight Forward has operated its first delivery flight having received US government Part 135 Standard certification to operate a drone airline. The UPS subsidiary was awarded the certificate on Friday 27 September, and immediately a delivery flight took off at WakeMed’s hospital campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. The flight, using a Matternet M2 quadcopter […]

Emirates SkyCargo flies first horses to FEI World Equestrian Games

Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first group of 67 horses for the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. The horses were flown from Liege, Belgium to Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina in an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 Freighter. This is the first of 19 flights that Emirates SkyCargo will be operating as a special charter for one […]