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Posted on 09/22/2026 11:04:20 AM PDT by DFG
Step outside in the right Richardson neighborhood and you will hear it before you see it: a high-pitched whirr cutting through the afternoon. Your neighbor just ordered something from Amazon, and it will arrive in 30 minutes. The sound, according to residents under the flight paths, does not stop after one delivery.
Amazon's Prime Air drone program has moved well past the pilot stage in Richardson, Texas. The gap between the company's framing and what some residents describe living beneath it has become the defining tension of the rollout, according to New York Times reporting dated September 21, 2026.
How the Program Actually Works
Richardson city officials authorized Prime Air operations from a local facility, with a 7.5-mile service radius and operating hours from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Federal Aviation Administration controls airspace and cleared Amazon for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations, setting a maximum altitude of 400 feet.
Deliveries can arrive in as little as 30 minutes, with fees ranging from free to $4.99 depending on the order, according to Amazon's own announcements. The company says tens of thousands of items are eligible for the service.
What Residents Under the Flight Paths Say
Residents near active routes describe the drones as sounding like flying lawn mowers, audible indoors even with the television on, according to New York Times reporting. Volume is one concern; frequency is another. When deliveries scale to a neighborhood-wide operation, the cumulative effect is what residents say they did not anticipate.
Privacy is the second flashpoint, and it centers on what those drones can see. Amazon's aircraft carry multiple cameras and sensors for navigation, and one resident told the Times her concern is that those cameras could capture images of your backyard and that Amazon might use that data in ways you do not expect.
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Noise is a big deal, and some noises are worse than others.
LMAO
I live under the main run heading fir both the local Air Force base and the local GA aerodrome.
Every day is a air show.
The gun shops should sell a lot of shotguns if that keeps up.
Richardson 'aint what it used to be.
Property owners can if they so choose vote in ordinances against Amazon drones.
Just as Amazon if they so chose can add in delivery fees or maybe 2 day delays to those customers who want their packages delivered the old fashioned way if it adds extra costs over drone delivery.
ComputerGuy wrote: “The gun shops should sell a lot of shotguns if that keeps up.”
You do realize that shooting one of these drones could lead to both criminal and civil charges?
Yes, indeed it is. Residential areas used to be, and ought to be, quiet, calm places for human beings to relax, socialize, and sleep. Noise in such settings is intrusive and disruptive. It destroys the restorative character of homes and neighborhoods, and so takes a toll on our psychology and physiology. While there are some out there who would mock and sneer at these statements, there are those of us who know them to be true. Unfortunately, our populace hasn’t been educated or raised properly, and will accept this further degradation of our cities as ‘progess’, or perhaps more blithely, ‘change’. Idiots.
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The Walmart where I live has drone delivery. Unless your outside near the drop spot, you can’t hear them. That service works great for small items that you missed while shopping. Saves a trip to the store and no extra charge either.
Texas???
Richardson, Texas (NE suburb of Dallas)
My parents and I lived in Richardson from 1964 to 1968.
Richardson was way out in the country back then.
We lived in a neighborhood off of Campbell.
Yes
NIMBY’s are the reason everything costs so much in this country.
I hope that is the situation because I like the delivery and assuming it all works well, then it will stay with us with better and larger drones with heavier payloads.
For the military minded, think of all the advancement coming from giants like Walmart and Amazon doing the spending and research on finessing drone deliveries to the field.
My wife has had three done deliveries, any time it is offered free she takes it then sits in the back yard to watch. It is fairly loud when it descends, but the idea it is a noise nuisance is ridiculous.
Why? If they fly low?
Almost all cities have noise ordinances. They should enforce them.
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