While the development of all kinds of next-generation aviation and UAV activity merits the attention it attracts, the reality is a lot of what’s afoot is still in early-phase operation or testing. That work-in-progress status makes seeing quantified metrics in advanced applications like those released today by drone delivery specialist Flytrex particularly useful in measuring rates of progress.
Earlier this month, Flytrex CEO Yariv Bash shared his analysis of the drone delivery business with DroneDJ and explained why he expects those services to truly bust out in 2022. Now the company is revealing its 2021 Yardstick measuring UAV operations in the three North Carolina communities it serves. Those will permit comparison with future performance as the company’s system evolves, and with wider aerial delivery activity as it takes wing.
The marquee stats Flytrex published include over 12,000 orders its automated drones delivered to backyards in its North…