Amazon drone delivery gets FAA approval
The Federal Aviation Administration announced on August 31 that Amazon has obtained federal government approval to operate its Prime Air Delivery (drone delivery) fleet, which is a milestone for the company to expand its unmanned package delivery business.
This approval will give Amazon the privilege to deliver packages to customers safely and efficiently. Amazon will use the Federal Aviation Administration's certification to begin testing customer deliveries.
American media person Sharon Bond said: “Amazon makes this challenge more complicated. The drones it launches must be autonomous and fully electric, which means that its drones must be able to carry packaging and have enough The battery power reaches the customer’s home and is light enough to fly."
Prime Air Vice President David Carbon said in a statement that the service will one day deliver packages to customers around the world. The company will continue to develop and improve the technology, fully integrate the carrier drone into the airspace, and cooperate with the FAA and Other regulatory agencies around the world work closely to realize the vision of 30-minute delivery.
The company has now focused on drone delivery to promote faster delivery of packages to major member countries. Since last year, Amazon has also invested billions of dollars to transition from two-day delivery to one-day delivery.
Amazon began testing delivery drones in 2013, with the goal of delivering packages to customers’ doorsteps in 30 minutes or less. The company launched a new type of electric delivery drone for the first time at the MARS conference in 2019, which can deliver packages weighing less than 5 pounds to customers within half an hour, with a flying distance of up to 24 kilometers.
Amazon Global Consumer CEO Jeff Wilk said at the time that the company may use drones to deliver packages within a few months.
Amazon is not the only company seeking to expand the delivery of commercial drones. In April 2019, Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google's parent company), became the first unmanned aircraft to obtain approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for commercial delivery in the United States. In October of the same year, UPS obtained the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate the drone fleet as an airline.