We’ve teamed up with leading Australian retail property group Vicinity Centres to launch a drone delivery service from the rooftop of a shopping centre. Check it out:

Last weekend, Wing reached the milestone of 100,000 drone deliveries globally. The growth is fast-paced: the second quarter of 2021 alone saw more drone deliveries than the entire previous year. Finnish consultancy company Gaia Consulting Oy recently conducted a study to determine what drone delivery at scale could mean for a city like Helsinki, and this is what they found: 

This September will mark our second anniversary in Logan, Australia -- a neighbour of Brisbane with a population of 300,000 -- and it’s  been an unprecedented time in more ways than one. Between bushfires of 2019, and the more recent COVID-19 lockdowns, Logan  residents have ordered and received more than 50,000 deliveries directly to their homes by Wing delivery drones.

In June, we announced the roll out of Wing’s free drone flyer app, OpenSky, in the United States to help drone operators of all stripes share the sky safely. Already, we’ve seen tens of thousands of operators -- everyone from professional photographers to surveyors to hobby flyers -- use the app to find out where they can safely fly their drones and request authorization to fly in controlled airspace. Now, we’re excited to introduce two new updates... 

Wing, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved UAS Service Supplier of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), made its drone flyer app, OpenSky, available in the U. S. today for the first time. Available for free in the Google Play and Apple’s App Store, the OpenSky app makes it easy for drone flyers to abide by FAA airspace rules and regulations and request authorization to fly in controlled airspace in near real-time.

This weekend marks the start of Wing's third year of operation in Helsinki, with new partners and an expanded selection of products available by air for Helsinki’s most populous district. In addition to grocery items from Alepa, Wing has partnered with Fazer and Crunch Brunch to bring customers a wide selection of lunch items and sweets for summer. 

Pretty great, if they’ve experienced it.

Pollsters have asked the public in the U.S. and Europe for their attitudes toward drone delivery a number times in the past ten years. While the results of the surveys vary--support for drone delivery ranging from 23%¹ to 50%² -- all of them have one thing in common: they were conducted among respondents who had never seen, much less received, anything delivered by a drone. Today, researchers at Virginia Tech published the results of the first survey

conducted among residents in a city with an active drone delivery service, and the results are quite interesting.