‘Drone delivery is not a one-size-fits-all operation,’ says UPS’s Bala Ganesh, ‘our collaboration with Wingcopter helps pave the way for us to start drone delivery service in new use-cases.’

UPS and  Wingcopter of Darmstadt are to build delivery drones with a range of 75 miles and a top speed of 150mph.

‘Drone delivery is not a one-size-fits-all operation,’ says UPS’s Bala Ganesh, ‘our collaboration with Wingcopter helps pave the way for us to start drone delivery service in new use-cases.’

UPS has a project called Flight Forward to develop drone delivery services. It is developing different drones to fit different customer needs e.g. fast ones for time-sensitive deliveries and robust ones for difficult geographies and flying conditions.

The new UPS drones will be able to quickly land and takeoff, reach top speeds of 150mph and will be able to endure winds of up to 45mph

Last year UPS beat Amazon and Alphabet to being the first company to get approval to use drones for parcel deliveries from the US Federal Aviation Authority.