Alphabet’s Wing introduces additional aircraft into its fleet

In a blog post, Alphabet’s Wing drone business introduced additional aircraft into its fleet that will “simplify and streamline” larger orders. “Today we offer the ability for customers to fulfill larger orders, beyond what fits on one aircraft,” the company said. “Order trends tell us that 70% of all US orders are delivered by one Wing aircraft, while 30% are delivered by two. To better serve that 30% and further optimize our business, we will be introducing an additional aircraft to complement our existing fleet. Think of it like how airlines operate different aircrafts for different routes: This new aircraft will streamline our deliveries of larger orders. For example, you could order last minute ingredients for dinner – pasta, marinara sauce, parmesan cheese, canned olives and garlic. Just like other forms of transportation, drone delivery is not one-size-fits all. That’s why we’ve taken an approach to aircraft development that we call an Aircraft Library, where our team works on a variety of configurations and builds on core components we already use for our flight-proven aircraft. When we identify a need in the market-like a larger aircraft for larger orders-we can adapt our design to quickly and efficiently meet that need.”