Google announces its own delivery drones project

AT THE end of 2013, Amazon made quite a media splash when it revealed that it had been testing the use of small drones to deliver packages. The company is betting that the airborne marvels will eventually be able to transport parcels to customers within a ten-mile radius of the vast network of warehouses that it runs. But it is not the only tech giant with its eyes on the sky. On August 28th Google announced that its secretive "Google X" arm, which works on bold and risky long-term projects, has also developed a prototype delivery drone, as part of an initiative dubbed Project Wing.

Google has already shown with its driverless-car initiative, which was also hatched in Google X, that it is willing to promote ambitious new ideas, or “moonshots” in Google-speak, in the field of transport.

Your entire post is flawed.

The FAA is drafting regs to cover operations, unmanned operations, to comply with the same standards of manned flights while at the same time address the limitations associated with unmanned flights.

Small operators, guys I know, with commercial tickets and owning small aircraft do fly people around for money and make deliveries for money. A commercial ticket allows that. You want to fly regular chartered flights, need to comply with that portion of the regs. Here’s a thought—don’t let anyone sue anyone if they crash as a pilot or passenger.

If you followed the entire thread you would find the context of my post. Meaning, the FAA regulates air operations in the NAS, and that includes unmanned as well as manned flight. You, apparently, want unregulated flights, unregulated charters, unregulated standards, let Joe Schmuck and his barely flyable aircraft to fly the friendly skies.

All operations in the NAS come under FAA review and certifications, and the argument was only Amazon and Google would be players in unmanned deliveries and that simply isn’t so. . .shattering the argument that A/G would dictate to the FAA regs and such that would prohibit/inhibit UAV ops by smaller entities.

From whence does the FAA derive that regulatory authority?

If you are flying a drone across a lake, well under 500’, the FAA shuts you down...

Deep pockets for election campaigns and the cost of red tape, and you are just peachy to fly books and knick-knacks across Country.

And you think this is just peachy?

As for “regulation”, I want a civilian agency similar to the IEEE instead of an industry choking bureaucracy... You know, that whole “freedom” and “liberty” thing.

“If you are flying a drone across a lake, well under 500’, the FAA shuts you down...”

That statement is proof you have no idea about what you are talking about.

Buh-buy

You are an idiot... Did you think Google was broken?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/innovation/beer-drone-faa/

Some of you DUmmies need to go pollute your own forum.

Cite Chapter and verse from the FAR’s for unmanned vehicles.

And no, an NPRM that “might” go into effect next Spring does not count.

Your beloved bureaucracy is operating far beyond its mandate.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.