Posted on 09/02/2020 12:19:57 PM PDT by BeauBo
The Federal Aviation Administration will allow Amazon's fleet of Prime Air delivery drones to take flight.
A FAA spokesperson told Business Insider that the administration issued Amazon Prime Air its certificate on August 29. The Part 135 air carrier certificate allows Amazon to use "unmanned aircraft systems," or UAS, in a commercial operation...
The certificate will allow Amazon to dive into operating a commercial drone delivery service, which has been in the works since 2013. The FAA gave Amazon permission to test its drones in the US in June 2019...
(Amazon Prime Air Vice President David Carbon) said, "This certification is an important step forward for Prime Air and indicates the FAA's confidence in Amazon's operating and safety procedures for an autonomous drone delivery service that will one day deliver packages to our customers around the world," Carbon said. "We will continue to develop and refine our technology to fully integrate delivery drones into the airspace, and work closely with the FAA and other regulators around the world to realize our vision of 30-minute delivery."
Amazon's electric drones are installed with a sense-and-avoid system to avert crashes. To date, the company's drone fleet has put in thousands of flight hours. Despite its new certification, Amazon will not be delivering packages to consumers yet. There is no word when its fleet of drones will be scaled and put to work fulfilling orders.
Amazon is also not the only player in the delivery drones game. In July, regional grocery chain Rouses Markets teamed up with last-mile delivery drone startup Deuce Drone for test flights in Alabama. The FAA has additionally issued Part 135 air carrier certificates to Alphabet's Wing Aviation and UPS' Flight Forward.
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PULL! BAM!
Send in the drones
Jeff Foxworthy suggested rednecks would see the drones as skeet shooting with a prize attached.
As battery tech improves, these suckers will be everywhere. It’s one of the easiest future trends to predict, ever.
And they would be great for surveillance, too.
And this “ted talk” should drive the whole thing home. Watch it to the end. It is not mere “fiction”.
“Slaughterbot”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecClODh4zYk
That’ll be fun. I’ll be ordering something from Amazon every day.
yes just imagine govtards with these
i mean our own governments are just getting so much friendlier with conservative types like us, how can this go wrong
How to Build a Radio/Drone Jammer
Spark gap transmitters are the oldest type of radio transmitter made by man. They were first used around 1888 and remained legal until the 1920s when their use became greatly restricted. World War II delayed their complete ban outside of emergency communications for a few years. Now the only way to use them legally is inside a faraday cage. They operate as jammers for the same reason they were banned, they take up a lot of the radio spectrum.
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-build-a-radiodrone-jammer/34089
Easy to locate when in use, you screw up your own local electronics and when they find you, you go to Federal pound-me-in-the-arse prison.
Still think it’s a good idea?
The lawyers are lining up....just wait until the first person is hit and injured by this BAD IDEA.
I guess the teamsters (UPS) were late with their payoff. A lotta drivers gonna get laid off.
LOL .. that gal was a mess, but real easy on the eyes :-)
Plus you will get a free Washington Post newspaper delivered every day, too!
I always remember Don’s last words to her, “Knock ‘em dead, Birdie!”
This is going g to be a FIASCO!!!
Target practice.
..... That there is a very expensive Skeet ......
Trap shooting, unless there are two “birds.”
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