Viking Drone Packaging: Certified as a Crash Protected Container
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Walker Robinson
Viking Drone Packaging has received a Crash Protection Container (CPC) certification from the UK. The corporate says this certification is the primary of its kind, and the product has quite a few applications for the aerial transport and delivery of fragile or vital cargo. Their product highlights a key intersection between the packaging and UAV industries.
Viking Drone Packaging is a UK based company that specialized in the event and manufacturing of containers with impressive resistance to crashes. The corporate was founded with UAV transports specifically in mind, providing solutions to specific challenges and concerns inside the industry regarding cargo security and crash protection.
The Viking Drone Packaging is designed specifically for cargo that is assessed as ‘dangerous’ which implies that the cargo requires additional care in packaging and transportation. Until now, there was no UAV compatible packaging option that was certified for transporting cargo of this classification. In reality, until 2022 there have been no industry test procedures to find out whether packaging specifically for UAV transport could attain this certification. The UK Civil Aviation Authority led a project involving the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) and key industry stakeholders to develop this test procedure. This procedure includes dropping a package from a helicopter 400ft within the air, which was determined to be the everyday drone operating altitude.
Having passed this test, Viking Drone Packaging is now approved for the transport of important, high-value cargo. They’ve also been involved within the VCA’s development of handling and training procedures for UAVs carrying this classification of cargo, paving the way in which for similar firms to realize this certification within the UK.
“We’re delighted to have met the challenge of developing a light-weight, low-cost crash protected container to be used by the drone industry and to open the door to a big selection of use cases that were previously not possible” said David Weilert, Co-founder of Viking Drone Packaging. “Our next focus is on providing an answer for transporting radiopharmaceutical therapies to be used in cancer treatment and continuing to bring exciting latest capabilities to the drone industry in progressive ways,” Mr. Weilert concluded.
Because the UAV industry continues to grow, policy and regulations can have to grow with it. Viking Drone Packaging CPC certification is the primary of its kind, and their work with the UK’s VCA and other stakeholders inside the UAV transport and packaging industry has established procedures and criteria for the certification of other products.
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