UK-based Skysports Drone Services has partnered with Belgium healthcare provider AZ Turnhout on a trial to transport urgent medical supplies between hospital campuses using drones operated by Skysports.

The drones will ferry the supplies to hospital campuses at AZ Turnhout St Jozef and AZ Herentals and will be flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), where the drones will be remotely piloted from Skysports’ operation center at Buckinghamshire in South East England. Skysports described the approval for remote operations for trails as a “major regulatory breakthrough.”

From an operational hub in the southern part of the Belgian municipality Turnhout, the drones will take off and fly along two separate routes. The first route will see an RigiTech Eiger drone flying from the hub to the AZ

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