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Michael Merritt is Commercial & & Development Supervisor at Skyports Drone Solutions. Skyports Drone Solutions is a drone logistics business and service provider and operator of eVTOL drones for freight shipments, study and monitoring. The business is professional in the operation of long-range and Beyond Visual Line of vision flight for a wide range of usage cases, consisting of ship-to-shore and maritime applications, medical and harmful items shipments, and AI-driven studies for the farming and facilities sectors. Headquartered in London, Skyports Drone Provider has jobs running throughout 4 continents consisting of Asia, The United States and Canada, South America, and Europe.
At Skyports, Michael leads on method & & operations, especially in the location of drone shipments. He has actually likewise worked as a flight operations engineer and pilot, getting numerous hours of flight time experience and running flights throughout much of Skyports Drone Provider’ jobs. Michael studied as an Aerospace Engineer at the University of Bristol and holds General Visual Certificates for fixed-wing and rotary drone operation.
Just Recently, Skyports Drone Provider revealed the launch of the Orkney I-Port job, a completely electrical drone logistics job developed in collaboration with Royal Mail, the Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair. The job will provide 2 brand-new abilities: everyday inter-port shipment of Royal Mail products and the presentation of shore-to-ship shipments. The I-Port job is considerable as it represents the very first UK drone shipment job which can be performed on a long-term basis under existing regulative structures, a turning point enabled due to the distinct landscape of Orkney.
In this episode of the Drone Radio Program, Michael discusses Skyports Drone Solutions, the Orkney I-Port job and how Skyports is working to produce a long-term everyday mail shipment service supported by drones.
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