{"id":105843,"date":"2020-04-21T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/wingcopter-partners-with-ups-flight-forward-on-delivery-drones"},"modified":"2020-04-24T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:23:39","slug":"wingcopter-partners-with-ups-flight-forward-on-delivery-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/wingcopter-partners-with-ups-flight-forward-on-delivery-drones","title":{"rendered":"Wingcopter Partners with UPS Flight Forward on Delivery Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wingcopter-partners-with-ups-flight-forward-on-delivery-drones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wingcopter-partners-with-ups-flight-forward-on-delivery-drones2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insideunmannedsystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPS-Wingcopter.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/insideunmannedsystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPS-Wingcopter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insideunmannedsystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPS-Wingcopter-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/insideunmannedsystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPS-Wingcopter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insideunmannedsystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPS-Wingcopter-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px)  100vw, 1600px\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">Wingcopter and UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) are collaborating to develop package delivery drones.<\/p>\n<p>The companies will work toward earning regulatory certification for a Wingcopter unmanned aircraft to make commercial delivery flights in the United States, according to a news release. This partnership represents \u201ca critical step toward building a diverse fleet of drones with varying capabilities to meet even more potential customer needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wingcopter drone is capable of vertical takeoff and landing in tight spaces and transitioning to high-speed horizontal flight. Its patented tilt-rotor mechanism enables a seamless transition between the two drone modes\u2014multicopter for hovering and fixed-wing for low-noise forward flight. The aerodynamic drone provides stability even in harsh weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wingcopter and UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) are collaborating to develop package delivery drones. The companies will work toward earning regulatory certification for a Wingcopter unmanned aircraft to make commercial delivery flights in the United States, according to a news release. This partnership represents \u201ca critical step toward building a diverse fleet of drones with varying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105996,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105843\/revisions\/105996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}