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Deutsche Post DHL Tests UAS Parcel Delivery Across the Rhine

Posted on December 10, 2013 by The Editor

Germany’s express delivery and mail company Deutsche Post DHL is testing a UAS that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places. The small pilotless helicopter flew a package of medicine Monday from a pharmacy in the town of Bonn to the company’s headquarters on the other side of the Rhine River.The aircraft can carry up to 3 kilograms.
Company spokesman Thomas Kutsch says the flights all this week are strictly a research project to see if the technology works and there are no plans yet to start actual UAS deliveries.
The test flights required permission from local aviation authorities.



Daniel Knoche of DHL partner microdrones holds up a quadcopter at Deutsche Post headquarters on December 9, 2013 in Bonn, Germany.
Photos:  dpa/Oliver Berg and Rentz/Getty Images