Airdropped glider delivery drones. Idea is that you can use large carrier aircraft (manned or unmanned) to cover the big middle mile distances and land packages

Airdropped glider delivery drones. Idea is that you can use large carrier aircraft (manned or unmanned) to cover the big middle mile distances and land packages right where they’re needed. The focus is on providing reasonable cost one-ish day delivery to really rural or remote or low infra places, rather than sub-day delivery to urban cores. I had to design the airframe custom and am almost to test flight since it needs to be ok getting yeeted out of a plane and not endanger the plane. Luckily pixhawk has me covered in terms of a great extensible autopilot so the software side isn’t actually all that daunting. Documenting it here (https://petaurusaero.substack.com/ https://petaurusaero.substack.com/).