The manufacturer is claiming they will only be leased, not available for purchase, and they will only cost $15 hr to operate?
I wonder who was smoking what, when they came up with that figure??
Of course, I guess they were only costing battery energy costs, they conveniently forgot to mention the $500 hr in development, repair, maintenance, computerisation, testing, and hull losses costs.
See inside a new pilotless cargo plane, which has a nose-loading door like the Boeing 747 and can fly up to 200 miles
WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM
So far, the company has secured over 80 orders for Pelican Cargo, and it expects the first commercial flight to take place in the second half of 2023.