This weekend is the 16th year the Remote Area Medical Team will be in Wise County Virginia providing free dental, medical, and vision care to people. And it’s the first time a drone will deliver medicine to the site. It’s a real world test of how drones could deliver medical help to people in remote areas. Jon Greene is acting associate director of the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech. He says when it comes to UAS, Unmanned Aircraft Systems commonly known as drones, the main concern is safety for people on the ground. “What will happen is, assuming the weather cooperates on July 17 th , in the morning, an SR22 from NASA Langley, and an SR22 is basically a general aircraft that has been fitted with an autonomy package that allows it to fly as an unmanned aircraft system or drone,. so there will be a pilot in the vehicle for safety purposes, but it will fly just like a UAS and it will take off from Tazewell, Virginia with prescriptions for about 20 patients and fly that
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