This is a new milestone for the company Flying Whales or "flying whales", which has developed a solution for transporting heavy loads (60 tons) by airships which is of particular interest to the National Forestry Office (ONF).
It announces this Thursday in a press release that a third fundraising of 122 million euros has been carried out.
The French State enters its capital, via French Tech Sovereignty which is part of France 2030, the Principality of Monaco, via the National Finance Company and the Government of Quebec, via Investissement Québec.
A factory is under construction in Laruscade, in Gironde, for the first operations of skidding wood or transporting wind turbine blades from 2026. These giant cargo ships have the particularity of being able to operate in inaccessible areas.
Created in 2012, already surrounded by a rich development consortium of around forty French and Canadian aeronautics companies.
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