Brussels Airport wants a leading role in the development and application of innovative solutions using drones as it plans to buy a 30 percent stake in manned and unmanned aviation campus and incubator DronePort. The development of the facility, located at the former air force base of Sint-Truiden, started in 2013, and DronePort wants to stimulate research and innovation by creating an ‘ecosystem’ for the drone and advanced air mobility sector. This so-called ‘ecosystem’ will include both a … [Read more...] about Brussels Airport eyes stake in DronePort
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Hong Kong-listed firm to open world’s first cargo drone facility in Japan
Hong Kong-listed ESR Cayman, a logistics real estate platform, has started construction on a distribution centre in the greater Tokyo area which is expected to be the world’s first cargo drone logistics facility. Together with UK-based drone developer VRCO, ESR will design and demonstrate the ESR Higashi Ogishima DC–Phase 1, which will cover around 365,000 square metres of floor area and is expected to be a base for the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) airframes touted to move … [Read more...] about Hong Kong-listed firm to open world’s first cargo drone facility in Japan
