JAL demonstrates food transportation with unmanned helicopter to "drone logistics" (news switch) --Yahoo! News

We will build logistics networks in remote island areas where passenger aircraft is not in service, and aim to create cargo demand.

　Japan Airlines (JAL) will collaborate with local governments in Nagasaki Prefecture, and will conduct demonstration experiments in December in December, assuming food transportation using unmanned helicopters and water accidents and secret fishing. Combined with existing air freight transportation, we will build logistics networks in remote island areas where passenger aircraft are not in service, and to create cargo demand. At the same time, it will be implemented as part of the expansion of unmanned helicopters. "Flying cars that can be seen in 30 seconds" on December Nagasaki and Goto Islands, the route from Shinjou Goto -cho, Nagasaki Prefecture to Nagasaki / Sasebo, transports "Morning Rice Fresh Fish" in the same town with an unmanned helicopter. 。 Utilizing Haneda (Tokyo) flights operated by JAL from Nagasaki Airport, it is assumed to be transported to restaurants in Tokyo on that day. In January 2022, he used an unmanned helicopter on Nakadori Island (Shinjo Goto -cho, Nagasaki Prefecture) to provide rescue and secret fishing monitoring assuming a water accident. The aim is to verify the convenience and effectiveness of unmanned helicopters. The unmanned helicopter uses the Yamaha Motor's "Fazer R G2". Review of communication means, operations, and appropriate selling prices for products. JAL launched the "Air Mobility Creation Department" in April 2001 with the aim of practical use of logistics using flight robots (drones) and "flying cars". Prior to this, in November 2002, we conducted a demonstration experiment on cargo transportation by unmanned helicopters in Sasebo City and Shinkami Goto Town in Nagasaki Prefecture. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will enforce the revised Aviation Law in the latter half of 2010, and the visual flight (level 4) in the manned zone is expected to be lifted. While drone transportation is expected to enter the commercialization stage, JAL aims to commercialize drone logistics in FY2013.