Serhiy Morgunov, The Washington Post; In Ukraine, drones are death. Now they are rescuers, too.
"Code 9.2 started looking for another way about a year ago. It built a frame of its own but lacked the technology to make it safe for a person. So instead they turned to SkyFall, whose engineers designed the first dedicated evacuation drone: StarGate...
New technology
The StarGate operations are so new that the pilot, Andrii Koliada, 33, had logged only six hours of practice before the rescues began last month — the first flight coming only four days before the first rescue...
SkyFall says it designed both the drone and its capsule specifically to evacuate the wounded. It built the capsule around a certified medical stretcher, and the drone can carry up to 330 pounds at speeds of up to 65 mph. The company says it also carries electronic warfare equipment to counter FPV attack drones and jamming."
