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Rwanda will get drone-delivered medical aid in July
In July, a fleet of fixed-wing drones will start dropping precious medical supplies to 21 hospitals and clinics in western Rwanda. These autonomous drones are made by an American startup called Zipline, which signed a contract with the country's government in February. They're designed to follow a flight path stored in a SIM card, fly to a clinic and drop their payload attached to a paper parachute from a low altitude before going back to their base. The machines can carry up to 3.5 pounds of blood and medicine, and each one can make 50 to 150 deliveries a day, flying around 180 miles an hour.
