Īllen and his team watched Flytrex deliver a Starbucks coffee “without spilling a drop,” then watched them make drone deliveries of prepackaged goods from a local Walmart. Flytrex drone is ‘like a Tesla without a steering wheel’Ĭustomers get their delivery, then the drone’s lowering wire reels back up and the drone returns to its home delivery pad.
Bash is still on the SpaceIL board as it attempts a successful landing with Beresheet II in 2024 or 2025.īut first he has some wings to deliver in Granbury. The Beresheet (Genesis) robotic moon lander made it to the moon but crashed on its surface, missing out on the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. Flytrex CEO aimed for the moon, moved on to wingsĪs we wrote last month, Flytrex co-founder and CEO Yariv Bash was the co-founder and team leader of SpaceIL, a Tel Aviv nonprofit that in 2019 helped lead Israel’s first mission to the moon. A commercial for the Texas service just dropped today. Now Flytrex has expanded to Texas, in the first of multiple planned drone delivery stations in Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. operations in 2018 in collaboration with the FAA’s UAS Integration Pilot Program.
The companies began partnering last year on drone deliveries from a Chili’s in North Carolina, where Flytrex began U.S.
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The service-which is free for customers and cheaper for Brinker International than vehicle deliveries-isn’t the first time Flytrex has spread wings for Brinker. In flights that average 3 minutes 30 seconds, wings zoom over Lake Granbury, pause above their destination, and are lowered to the ground in a bright yellow bag, while the Flytrex drone hovers 80 feet above. Today, Israel-based Flytrex began flying chicken wings from a Chili’s in Granbury to back yards and businesses up to one mile away.
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