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The world of freight transport is today faced with major environmental and economic problems (costs/delivery times) that it cannot solve with current thermal means (trucks, ships, helicopters, planes).

The start-up, Windlair, is revolutionizing the logistics market with a longer, more durable and more efficient high-extension drone solution, which enables the rapid delivery of large loads to isolated and difficult-to-access sites, in both the civilian and military sectors.

The cargo drone has a wide range of applications, thanks to its high payload capacity. In particular, it can carry out large-scale observation and surveillance missions.

The solution developed by Windlair includes a series of innovations and patents, such as an eVTOL hybrid electric propulsion architecture combining unique multi-rotor technology with a folding fixed wing that has high-performance aerodynamic characteristics.

This design gives the cargo drown a wide action radius (400 km) and high working load (150 kg) for its category, therefore providing a significant advantage over the competition, whether technically (flight autonomy, speed, flight stability and limit) or environmentally (low carbon emissions, reduced sound pollution).

The DX400 has many applications including, for example:
– commercial logistics missions to deliver equipment to territories that are difficult to access (rural and mountainous areas, archipelagos, desert zones);
– support missions for the maintenance of remote energy sites (land or floating wind farms, oil sites in desert areas, oil rigs);
– rapid intervention missions to transport first-aid equipment, medicine and supplies during natural disasters;
– humanitarian transport missions;
– inland mapping missions using 3D lidar and heavy digital cameras;
– real-time surveillance and observation of critical production sites (pipelines, gas pipelines, mines, platforms, solar power stations);
– logistical and medical support for the armed forces.