Skyways

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.

20-27 knots of wind? No problem!