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Industry & Contracts
Wing Hires Its Way to Scale: Ex-Navy X-47B Engineer and a Google Pixel Hardware VP Take C-Level Roles as Alphabet's Drone Arm Claims the Largest US Delivery Network
Wing's two new C-level hires, a Navy carrier-autonomy veteran and a former Google Pixel hardware chief, plus an FAA Houston plan sized for 30,000 flights a day, show Alphabet's drone unit gearing up to build and fly aircraft at consumer-electronics volumes.
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Industry & Contracts
Wing Aviation, Explained: From Google X Moonshot to 40 Million American Customers
Wing Aviation — Alphabet's drone delivery spinout — holds the first FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate ever issued to a drone company, operates across three continents, and is on course to reach more than 40 million Americans through Walmart by 2027.
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Industry & Contracts
Zipline: How a Drone Startup Became the World's Largest Autonomous Delivery Network
Founded in 2014 to route blood and vaccines around failed road infrastructure in Rwanda, Zipline has logged 100 million autonomous miles, serves 4,000-plus health facilities across seven countries, and is now deploying its second-generation tethered-Droid delivery system in American suburbs.
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Industry & Contracts
Drone Insurance Decoded: Liability, Hull, BVLOS, and What Things Cost
Part 107 proves you can fly — it doesn't cover anything when something goes wrong. A structured look at commercial UAS insurance: coverage types, premium ranges by operation, the on-demand policy model, and why BVLOS requires its own specialist approach.