Rwanda chosen for world’s first ‘drone-port’ to deliver medical supplies

British architect Norman Foster proposes drones which would fly from three ports from 2020, delivering ‘precious supplies to remote areas’.
It sounds like science fiction: unmanned drones carrying emergency medicine zooming above the rolling hills of Rwanda.
But there are proposals – including one by the eminent British architect Norman Foster – to set up “cargo drone routes capable of delivering urgent and precious supplies to remote areas on a massive scale”, and the East African nation of Rwanda has been chosen as a test case.
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