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If you want to get your morning medication or perhaps that tool you want off Amazon right now, Amazon Prime Air is going to be able to get that to you sooner, via drone. The Federal Aviation Administration just approved Amazon ’s safety processes and technologies for flying beyond visual line of sight, and the result is that Amazon Prime Air drone deliveries will begin integrating into the company’s delivery network.
The FAA requires drone operators to fly only within line of sight, unless they pass rigorous testing for safety. “Our vision has remained unchanged since we started working on Prime Air: to create a safe and scalable way to deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using highly autonomous drones,” Amazon says. “To achieve our goal of delivering 500 million packages, per year, by drone, by the end of this decade, we knew we had to design a system capable of serving highly populated areas and that was safer than driving to the store.
Right now Amazon is using its MK-27 drone, which weighs about 80 pounds and is about the size of a dining room table. It carries packages that weigh five pounds or less and fit into a shipping container about the size of a shoebox, flies at about 50 miles per hour, and drops packages while hovering about 10 feet off the ground.
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