AutoFlight's CarryAll flies unmanned tea run over Guizhou mountains

AutoFlight/CarryAll (autonomous cargo eVTOL)

AutoFlight flew its CarryAll cargo eVTOL without a pilot between two Guizhou cities, carrying fresh spring tea. The tea then went on by high-speed rail to Shanghai, and the company says the combined air and rail route delivered it the same day.

• The eVTOL leg covered about 120 km between Anshun and Guiyang in 37 minutes over mountainous terrain.
• The rail leg from Guiyang to Shanghai is nearly 2,000 km.
• The release gives the aircraft's maximum payload as 400 kg but does not state the load carried on this flight.
• AutoFlight says it will extend the air-plus-rail model to more specialty agricultural regions with partners.