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Skyways V2.6 aircraft autonomously resupplying Japanese destroyer.

One of our Skyways V2.6 aircraft takes off from USS DDG-54 Destroyer ship in the middle of the Pacific. The video is not sped up. The ship is moving at ~20KT and there's nearly as much wind coming from behind. The aircraft tracks the ship on the way up during ascent to stay in near zero relative wind and then turns into the wind for transition to cruise flight.

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One of our awesome engineers, Caroline Voges, worked on an exciting project affectionately dubbed COLDBOI (Climate Optimized Load Delivery of Blood and Organic Items). Our objective was to develop a solution for the secure transportation of blood and vaccines within our autonomous aircraft. COLDBOI is a carbon fiber insulated container equipped with thermoelectric coolers and a custom PCA, designed to maintain temperatures between 1-6°C for blood and vaccine delivery. Remarkably, it can accommodate 10 bags of blood, approximating the total volume found within the human body, a massive transfusion protocol. Despite the project's challenges, our perseverance paid off; COLDBOI consumes minimal power, boasts a lightweight construction, and features a robust design (capable of enduring drops from our payload bay). However, its most crucial aspect is its potential to save lives. The COLDBOI project culminated in a successful customer demonstration where one of our Skyways V2.6 aircraft flew 313 miles over 6 hours, safely carrying 10 bags of simulated blood between 3-5°C in an operationally relevant environment. Congratulations and big thanks Caroline & team for your amazing work and delivering results to our customers!

Team at Skyways making rapid progress with the V3 program. We showed Block 0 exactly 3 months ago and now here's a second aircraft, Block 1, with a heavy fuel engine that we've integrated. V3's range is significant -- for illustration purposes, enough range to fly from Mexico to Canada, crossing the entire mainland US, non-stop.

Oh, by the way, this is V3. Our new aircraft. 100% autonomous flight. For scale, its current wingspan is 26ft. About 3x more capable than V2 for payload and range. It's been flying since March.