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08/09/2023

Forces News: Supply Drone Successfully Lands on UK’s Largest Warship in First for Royal Navy

Briohny Williams | 8th September 2023 at 7:07am A supply drone has safely landed on Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in a first for naval operations. The Southampton-based W Autonomous Systems (WAS) drone flew from the Lizard Peninsula and onto the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off the Cornish coast, delivered supplies, then…

08/09/2023

W Autonomous Systems, Part of the Windracers Group, Makes History Landing on Royal Aircraft Carrier

The W Autonomous Systems (WAS) drone flew from the Lizard Peninsula and on to the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off the Cornish coast, delivered supplies, then flew back in a milestone flight which points the way to the future of naval aviation. It’s a vital step along the way to operating crewless aircraft…

27/02/2023

Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) wins Collaborate To Innovate Award for Aerospace and Defence

SATE, the low carbon aviation test centre, has been named winner of The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate Award for Aerospace and Defence. The project was credited with driving the development of low carbon aviation technologies whilst simultaneously helping to improve the connectivity of the UK’s most remote region. It comes following Windracers’ groundbreaking autonomous aviation…

09/08/2022

Windracers secures third round of funding from Future Flight at UKRI

Windracers has won a third round of successful funding from the Future Flight challenge at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to conduct further rigorous testing of its middle mile logistics drones and high-reliability autopilot technology.

09/05/2022

Royal Mail reveals ambitious vision for more than 50 new postal drone routes in partnership with Windracers Group

Royal Mail today set out its ambition to scale up its use of drone technology and create more than 50 new postal drone routes over the next three years, subject to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approval, as part of a new partnership with Windracers, the logistics drone company.

06/10/2021

Another Royal Mail First: Company trials delivering 100% of remote community’s mail by lower emission drone

This week, Royal Mail has started a trial of scheduled, autonomous flights for two weeks between Kirkwall and North Ronaldsay (both in the Orkney Islands) with Windracers Ltd to help better connect remote island communities.

10/05/2021

Royal Mail delivers two UK firsts with Autonomous drone parcel deliveries to the Scilly Isles alongside inter-island drone deliveries of test kits

Royal Mail and partners have delivered two more UK firsts. As part of a specialist consortium, Royal Mail becomes the first UK parcel carrier to deliver mail to a UK island in a 70 mile out-of-sight, autonomous flight to the Scilly Isles.

19/12/2020

50kg payload drone flight revolutionises Covid-19 NHS medical supply delivery in Cornwall

Windracers complete first successful UAV flight via an air corridor between mainland Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, funded by Innovate UK as part of a response to support the NHS with COVID-19 logistics