![]() Next, the drugs would be loaded onto a special-delivery drone made by the Australian company Flirtey and flown about a mile to the fairgrounds, where the cargo will be lowered to the ground.įederal Aviation Administration approval is pending the agency did not return calls for comment this week. A pilot would be on board in case the plan goes haywire, but otherwise it would be controlled by remote stations on the ground. On the day of the test flight - called “Let’s Fly Wisely” - a NASA aircraft would carry prescriptions for 20 people from the Tazewell County Airport to Lonesome Pine Airport in Wise County. ![]() “ could really be game-changing and increase access and save lives.” I’ve got patients dying without medication,” said Gardner, who brought RAM to Virginia. Once the clinics are in place, if she runs out of supplies, there’s no way to retrieve more from stockpiles that lie hours away. In addition to demystifying commercial drones and opening the door to economic development, supporters say the technology would make sense in Wise County.Īs executive director of the Health Wagon, Teresa Owens Gardner runs two stationary health-care clinics and a mobile unit that travels to remote locations. ![]() But from a commercial standpoint, these have the opportunity to rewrite how we do the movement of goods.” Obviously drones have been used in the military for many, many years. Jackson, McAuliffe’s secretary of technology. “The governor keeps talking about the new Virginia economy,” said Karen R. Terry McAuliffe (D) will be there to trumpet the cause. There are still questions as to whether Russia meant to down the drone, even though the moments that led up to its crash were “intentional,” said Milley, who stood alongside Austin at the briefing.Pairing the technology with the feel-good RAM clinic - where residents of central Appalachia, starved for health care, often camp out for days for the chance to see a dentist or doctor - could cast drones in a new light. military calls in the early months of the war. and Russian military leaders has been limited, with Russian officials refusing to take U.S. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, contact between U.S. and Russian defense and military leaders were talking so soon after the incident underscored the seriousness of the encounter over the Black Sea and that both sides recognized the need to tamp down the risks of escalation. has said it was working on declassifying surveillance footage from the drone that would show Tuesday’s crash. Russia has denied that it caused the accident. military said it ditched the Air Force MQ-9 Reaper in the sea after a Russian fighter jet poured fuel on the surveillance drone and then struck its propeller while it was flying in international airspace. And I think that that will help to prevent miscalculation going forward.” “I think it’s really key that we’re able to pick up the phone and engage each other. And that’s why I believe it’s important to keep the lines of communication open,” Austin said at a Pentagon press briefing. “We take any potential for escalation very seriously. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a similar call with his Russian counterpart, Gen. It was the first call between Austin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu since October. drone over the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian fighter jets, which brought the two countries closest to direct conflict since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago. ![]() WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to his Russian counterpart on Wednesday about the destruction of a U.S.
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