Lentola Logistics – Revolutionizing the delivery drone landscape
OUR JOURNEY
Lentola began developing and manufacturing drones in 2017. Over the years, we have designed and flight-tested various concepts and gained valuable insights into the performance capabilities of different wing and airframe configurations.
CONCEPT
There are many different aircraft concepts in the world. Each concept is always a compromise, because one concept is never the best of all in the field of flying. For example, a multicopter hovers most stably in strong winds, as it has no wings, but its range is very short.
Lentola’s cargo drone concept offers many advantages over other concepts. These include, among other things, the ability to fly in windy and even icing conditions, the ease of attaching cargo to the belly of the aircraft, and the capability to land vertically amidst tall undergrowth.
BENEFITS
Getting started with large delivery drones can be exciting, even scary. The idea of introducing a new mode of transport may also initially seem daunting and arduous.
However, the benefits certainly justify the effort. For hard-to-reach locations, drone delivery is far superior to other transport methods in terms of both cost and speed.
METHOD
Safety is Lentola’s number one priority in all development and operations. The industry standard for a delivery drone is to go into hover and winch the package down to the customer. However, the risks of hovering a drone increase rapidly as wind strength increases. Given the accidents that have occurred worldwide in such situations, Lentola’s system supports the use of a parachute instead of hovering, which we consider a significantly safer operating method.
