From finding missing people to delivering medical supplies, here’s what’s happening in the skies Photo: pixelfit/iStock February 18, 2021 Medical supplies, eyes on the Arctic and finding missing people — what do all these things have in common? Drones. Remotely-piloted aircraft have been used for over a hundred years by the military, but only became used more conventionally in recent years. Here’s a few of Canadian Geographic’s favourite recent stories about how drones are being used. To deliver medical supplies Drones will deliver medical supplies to the Stellat’en First Nation, thanks to a partnership with UBC’s Faculty of Medicine. The pilot project will serve the remote Indigenous community, which is more than 100 kilometres west of Prince George.