Viking Drone Packaging: Qualified as a Crash Secure Container

by means of DRONELIFE Workforce Author Walker Robinson

Viking Drone Packaging has gained a Crash Coverage Container (CPC) certification from the UK. The corporate says this certification is the primary of its sort, and the product has a lot of programs for the aerial shipping and supply of fragile or vital shipment. Their product highlights a key intersection between the packaging and UAV industries.

Viking Drone Packaging is a UK based totally corporate that specialised within the construction and production of bins with spectacular resistance to crashes. The corporate was once based with UAV transports in particular in thoughts, offering answers to express demanding situations and issues inside the trade relating to shipment safety and crash coverage.

The Viking Drone Packaging is designed in particular for shipment this is categorised as ‘unhealthy’ this means that that the shipment calls for further care in packaging and transportation. Till now, there was once no UAV suitable packaging choice that was once qualified for transporting shipment of this classification. In truth, till 2022 there have been no trade take a look at procedures to decide whether or not packaging in particular for UAV shipping may reach this certification. The United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority led a venture involving the Automobile Certification Company (VCA) and key trade stakeholders to expand this take a look at process. This process contains shedding a package deal from a helicopter 400ft within the air, which was once decided to be the everyday drone running altitude.

Having handed this take a look at, Viking Drone Packaging is now authorized for the shipping of essential, high-value shipment. They have got additionally been concerned within the VCA’s construction of dealing with and coaching procedures for UAVs wearing this classification of shipment, paving the best way for an identical corporations to reach this certification in the United Kingdom.

“We’re extremely joyful to have met the problem of creating a light-weight, cheap crash secure container to be used by means of the drone trade and to open the door to quite a lot of use instances that had been in the past inconceivable” mentioned David Weilert, Co-founder of Viking Drone Packaging. “Our subsequent center of attention is on offering an answer for transporting radiopharmaceutical remedies to be used in most cancers remedy and proceeding to convey thrilling new features to the drone trade in cutting edge techniques,” Mr. Weilert concluded.

Because the UAV trade continues to develop, coverage and rules must develop with it. Viking Drone Packaging CPC certification is the primary of its sort, and their paintings with the United Kingdom’s VCA and different stakeholders inside the UAV shipping and packaging trade has established procedures and standards for the certification of different merchandise.

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Walker Robinson is a 2022 Graduate of the College of California Santa Barbara with a keenness for renewable power and rising applied sciences. An early profession skilled skilled in each gross sales and construction of residential and utility-scale renewable power methods, he’s extremely joyful to be a part of the drone trade.

Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Leader of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, a certified drone products and services market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered at the business drone area and is a world speaker and identified determine within the trade.  Miriam has a point from the College of Chicago and over two decades of revel in in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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