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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>According to Falck, the company that operates the health drone, the scheme may easily be extended to other routes as well. Furthermore, it envisaged manned drone flights to deliver health personnel \u201cwithin three to five years\u201d.<\/p>\n

A so-called \u201chealth drone\u201d has made its maiden voyage in Denmark, delivering blood samples and medicine between Svendborg on the island of Funen and the island of \u00c6r\u00f8, Danish Radio reported. The 50-kilometre 40-minute flight was guided from a control room in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

The battery-powered health drone has a range of 100 kilometres and a payload of 2.5 kilograms. With a wing span of 2.8 metres, it can reach an altitude of 80 metres. It is equipped with a parachute in case of lost communication or an accident.<\/p>\n

Before the advent of health drones, blood samples taken on \u00c6r\u00f8 had to be driven by car and sailed by ferry to the laboratory on the Funen archipelago, which had its logistical limitations. According to him, the drone route may be also used for the timely delivery of valuable equipment.<\/p>\n

He explains that it is not only blood samples that must be flown from \u00c6r\u00f8 to a laboratory on Funen. It can also be medicine, equipment or special remedies in case of an accident that gets flown one way or another.<\/p>\n

According to Dahler-Eriksen expects the scheme to be expanded in the long term, so that inhabitants of other islands or outlying areas may benefit from health drones.<\/p>\n

Kjeld Jensen, associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Drone Centre and health drone project manager, called the flight \u201ca big step in the direction of scaling up drones\u201d, as the flight didn’t take place in a closed airspace, but together with the rest of the air traffic.<\/p>\n

Nicolai S\u00f8ndergaard Laugesen, development director at Falck, one of the companies behind the health drone, said its ability to fly in the open air means that it can easily be extended to other routes. At the same time, he envisaged new traffic rules in the future, when drones will be integrated with helicopters and others.<\/p>\n

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