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Brown Integrated Logistics makes a case for fewer handoffs
A truck, a warehouse and a freight broker can each do their job while the shipment still goes wrong. Brown Integrated Logistics sells a way to make someone answer for the space between them.
Charles Acknin Is Teaching Cargo Drones to Earn the Sky
The Skyways founder began with a $1,000 foam aircraft and a useful appetite for crashes. His bigger idea is that autonomous aviation earns trust one cargo flight at a time.
Aerolane
Aerolane is a Texas aerospace company reviving one of aviation's oldest tricks - the towed glider - for modern air freight. Its engineless Aerocart gliders are pulled behind conventional turboprops in a formation the company calls a 'sky train,' letting a single lead aircraft carry a second load of cargo. By eliminating engines and fuel on the trailer and surfing the lead plane's slipstream, Aerolane claims up to 65% lower operating costs and up to 50% more range, aiming to bring air-speed delivery closer to the cost of ground transport.