FAA Clears First Delivery Drone for Takeoff
Business Wars Daily
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4.6 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Monday, April 29, and we’re looking at Wing vs. UPS
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| 1:08.5 | Any parent who's read the classic kids book, Cloudy with a chance |
| 1:11.7 | of meatballs, might instinctively look into the sky at this news. Like the giant food in the book, |
| 1:16.8 | things could soon start falling out of the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration just |
| 1:22.0 | certified a new drone delivery service as an air carrier. This year, residents in Blacksburg, Virginia, should begin |
| 1:29.3 | receiving packages by air. Well, air drop. The service called Wing is owned by Alphabet. That's |
| 1:36.1 | Google's parent company. At some point, it'll expand beyond Blacksburg to other parts of Virginia |
| 1:40.9 | and then across the country. It's the first drone company to be certified |
| 1:45.1 | by the FAA under air cargo rules, which allow drones to fly beyond line of sight. Air cargo |
| 1:51.3 | certification is more flexible than existing drone rules, those regulations, only allow drones |
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