Swiss vertical takeoff and landing aircraft company Wingtra will be giving away three WingtraOne drones as prizes in its new Earth Day Challenge, whose winners will be selected on the merits of their proposed environmental or humanitarian projects.
The Zurich-based company says applications are now open for the first edition of its Earth Day Challenge, which will wrap up April 22 with three projects “aiming to do good” being awarded a WingtraOne Gen II drone that normally sells for $15,000. Wingtra says its own business fortunes have been sufficiently strong that it now wants to share the positivity around to people or organizations with plans to do good for the world – and who need some aerial assets to make those happen.
According to the contest page, nonprofit organizations, universities, research institutes, or government agencies wanting to participate must send in their proposals by March 31. Projects must have clear and effective objectives in…
