The rise of the heavy-lift cargo drone

Disruptive innovations often have the most unlikely origin stories. 

In the case of the Black Swan - a fixed-wing unmanned drone that promises to reshape the world of airfreight - it was its inventor’s hankering for Bulgarian cheese that kicked things off. 

In 2014, whilst studying aerospace engineering at university in the Netherlands and unable to find this taste of his homeland in any of his local stores, Konstantin Rangelov was jokingly encouraged by his brother Svilen to use his engineering skills to figure out a solution.

Just over ten years later, what began life as a lighthearted effort to design a small remotely operated aircraft that could bring him his favourite snack has evolved into Dronamics, a company with hundreds of employees, a fleet of unmanned aircraft and an ambition to transform the lucrative world of air freight.