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How Zipline Built Drone Delivery Operations at National Scale
This episode of The Operations Podcast dives into how Zipline built the world's first national-scale drone delivery network. Lucas and Luna trace the operational choices that made it work: how Zipline designed its aircraft for speed and payload efficiency, built a distributed hub-and-spoke launch system across Rwanda and Ghana, and integrated with existing health supply chains to deliver blood and vaccines to rural clinics. They break down the unit economics — each delivery costs about the same as a motorcycle taxi — and the FAA regulatory pathway Zipline navigated to launch in the US…
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