Project Wing have we found out who makes drones for Google?

Gary Mortimer

New website and a couple of interesting things from folks that see the following

Potential in the air

Breathe in the car exhaust. Hear the truck engine idling. Feel the weight of city congestion. Now look up. See all that open sky?

What if we could use the air to move anything from where it is to where it’s needed – quickly, reliably and with a much lower carbon footprint than today’s transportation?

At Project Wing we’re building the next generation of automated aircraft, and working toward the day when these vehicles deliver everything from consumer goods to emergency medicine – a new commerce system that opens up universal access to the sky.

http://www.solveforx.com/wing/

Made even more interesting as the buzz in industry is that Google were actually exciting the drone delivery business. Its always, “they” say and it seems “they” were wrong!

Heady times for SLT separate lift thrust or STL separate thrust lift, I never quite get it right.

The Ardupilot project is charging forward with adoption and flight testing thanks to the effort of Canberra UAV, winners of the Outback Challenge in 2014. Their 2016 entry will be an SLT.

Now where Tridge and co have an advantage over Google is in the use of petrol for the forward flight part. Its way more energy efficient. Still Google may a have access to some cutting edge ridiculously expensive batteries.

Lets look at some screen grabs of the Google drone.

I wonder if it has a a Pixhawk inside, looks like an RFD radio and a 3DR digital pitot.

Oh there’s one reg, and very interesting the register calls that an Ashfloyd Hummingbird.

And there’s another. N809G also an Ashfloyd Hummingbird.

Now we have been trying to find out what on earth the Ashfloyd aircraft were for quite a while, they represent a fair chunk of the US RPA register.

Last November Tiaan spotted the first two Google claimed N reg’s there are many more from Ashfloyd as you can see from our Drone Spotters list 43 in fact.

MODEL	SERIAL NUMBER	N-NUMBER	Operator	Date of Reg
HUMMINGBIRD	200	124G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150508
HUMMINGBIRD	202	219G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150515
HUMMINGBIRD	213	269G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150518
HUMMINGBIRD	214	270G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150519
HUMMINGBIRD	208	258G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150519
HUMMINGBIRD	207	256G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150519
HUMMINGBIRD	212	264G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150519
HUMMINGBIRD	215	276G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	211	263G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	210	262G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	204	239G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	216	290G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	201	209G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150521
HUMMINGBIRD	203	237G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150527
HUMMINGBIRD	206	253G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150601
HUMMINGBIRD	209	261G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150715
HUMMINGBIRD	205	249G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150715
HUMMINGBIRD	225	823G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	224	819G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	223	813G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	222	809G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	221	807G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	220	806G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	219	805G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	218	804G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	217	803G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	226	825G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150716
HUMMINGBIRD	301	104G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150818
HUMMINGBIRD	303	285G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150818
HUMMINGBIRD	304	291G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150818
HUMMINGBIRD	300	102G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150819
HUMMINGBIRD	305	293G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150819
HUMMINGBIRD	302	109G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20150820
HUMMINGBIRD	229	326G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160115
HUMMINGBIRD	230	329G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160119
HUMMINGBIRD	227	309G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160216
HUMMINGBIRD	228	313G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160216
HUMMINGBIRD	232	345G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160216
HUMMINGBIRD	237	353G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160216
HUMMINGBIRD	238	354G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160216
HUMMINGBIRD	231	331G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160217
HUMMINGBIRD	234	347G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160217
HUMMINGBIRD	235	349G	ASHFLOYD LLC	20160217