Polish firm’s drones, from lifesaver to invisible model, take to the skies


The Hermes drone designed by Spartacus will soon complete its final tests and start service as a blood transporter between a blood bank and the Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw. — Photos: AFP

MIKOLOW, Pologne: Silently the eight propellers of the Hermes V8MT drone begin to spin and the large yellow aircraft rises up, locates its direction and moments later disappears into the sky in southern Poland.

Today the drone is making a successful 8.5-kilometre (5.3-mile) test flight near the headquarters of the Polish firm Spartaqs in the town of Mikolow; soon it will be making journeys between a blood bank and the Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw.

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