Our mission at DRONAMICS is to democratize airfreight and lower the cost of shipping everywhere. To achieve this, we are developing a new type of cargo airplane – small, unmanned and extremely fuel efficient. It can transport 350 KG over 2,500 KM for a cost that’s 50%+ lower than other airplanes. It flies autonomously, can be monitored and managed remotely via satellite, and the whole system costs less than a sports car.
At first, it didn’t sound possible, but we keep proving it is, which is why we’ve called it “The Black Swan”. It can land on short and unpaved runways, enabling on-demand point-to-point flights and speedy same-day delivery even to the most remote locations that would otherwise take days to reach over ground or sea.
We are starting with domestic air networks in Europe and beyond with fleets of the Black Swan, taking advantage of the multitude of small airfields that are often unused, training local personnel as drone and logistics operators, and partnering with local industry to provide a valuable lifeline of getting goods in and out of small, remote, mountainous and/or island communities within hours at a cost that is often below even road transportation.
A technology like this can transform whole economies. If this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us, please don’t hesitate to reach out at the contacts below.
DRONAMICS is a pioneer in the large cargo UAV development and operations. Our goal is to build next-generation logistics networks for e-commerce, pharma, agriculture shipments, special cargo and spare parts. We’ve designed an extremely fuel-efficient autonomous aircraft enabling same-day long-haul cargo deliveries among a network of our droneports.
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Our goal is to become carbon-neutral by 2023 and carbon-negative by 2027.
The Black Swan’s fuel burn is a breakthrough 6.3L/100km or in other words – 37 MPG. Until we go electric, the way to minimize fuel burn is by optimizing heavily for maximum fuel efficiency, and this is one of the main achievements of the Black Swan. 37 MPG means that we have the fuel efficiency of a compact car, while flying twice as fast in a straight line with twice the cargo a compact can carry. Our ground equivalent, the Ford Transit Connect has EPA-rating of only 29 MPG, so we’re 30% more efficient than the most fuel-efficient cargo van!
What about airplanes? As you probably know, smaller vehicles are expected to be less efficient than large ones, yet the Black Swan is a rare case of the opposite. In fact, as the table below shows, per unit of cargo carried over a unit of distance the Black Swan spends less fuel than any other aircraft, with the exception of the 747-8F, 777F, 767F and A330F, each of which is between 125 times and 245 times bigger than the Black Swan. If we were to do a trendline, it would show that the Black Swan has the fuel efficiency of an aircraft 102 to 107 times bigger than it!
Mode of transportation | Energy | CO2 / tkm (g) | Avg. consumption (l/tkm) |
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Van (Ford Transit Connect) | Petrol | 602 | 0.249 |
Lorry <7.5 t | Diesel | 374 | 0.140 |
Lorry 7.5-12 t | Diesel | 288 | 1.100 |
Lorry 12-24 t | Diesel | 168 | 0.063 |
Lorry 24-40 t | Diesel | 101 | 0.038 |
Dedicated Freighter | Kerosene | 470 | 0.181 |
Belly freight | Kerosene | 820 | 0.316 |
DRONAMICS Now | E10 | 392 | 0.180 |
DRONAMICS after 2023 | Ethanol biofuel | 0 | 0.270 |