California heavy-lift UAV startup Parallel Flight Technologies has repeatedly demonstrated a desire to harness its boundary-pushing development of drone technology to objectives benefiting people and the planet – the most recent example being its new partnership with environmental NGO Island Conservation to preserve native flora and fauna under threat of extinction from invasive predators.

Based south of Santa Cruz, Parallel Flight continues to  enhance the capabilities of its hybrid heavy-lift Firefly drone, and broaden the kinds of work its maximum seven-hour flight time and 100 lb. payload capacities can support. Though the UAV – which CEO Joshua Resnick has likened to an aerial pickup truck ­– is used by a variety of industrial and other enterprise clients, Parallel also prides itself on the extra muscle Firefly has provided critical humanitarian, medical, firefighting, and conservation missions – an activity it’s now looking to…

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Source: dronedj.com