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#HumansOfZipline 🤩👏🎉 Jon Schwindt is a Program Lead at Zipline, currently working on launching our first “Powered-by-Zipline” model with Toyota Tsusho, where we license our drones and train the Toyota Tsusho team on how to operate the system. Jon is a longtime member of the Zipline team, who was recruited via Craigslist while looking for crab fishing jobs (serious throwback!). Jon shared with us his favorite moment from our first operations in Muhanga, Rwanda in 2016 —> where this photo is actually from! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “When I arrived in Rwanda we had just started flying, and it was very early days. We only had Abdoul Salaam as a Flight Operator. Abdoul was working with Brett, Rico, and a few other people. The recovery system Brett & I built in California - a wooden setup with the plane landing on mats - is what we launched with in Rwanda. It was safe and tested, but it was supposed to be a temporary stopgap. We were just beginning to fly in Rwanda. To be the operator, you had the iPad i...

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