FAA clears UPS delivery drones for longer-range flights
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US regulators have cleared the way forward for UPS delivery drones to fly beyond the visual line of sight.

Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft

  • @OptimusPrimeRib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Stuff like this is exactly why these companies are pushing remote ID on us Rc model plane hobbyists.

    I been flying Rc planes in parks for years and only now when tech is good enough for drone delivery they push remote ID to track us and make it a federal offense if enforced.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    UPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday.

    This is the kind of move that opens the door for drone delivery companies like Wing, FedEx, and Zip to deliver packages across a wider area and service more customers.

    UPS Flight Forward, a UPS subsidiary focused on drone delivery, can now deliver small packages beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) without spotters on the ground monitoring the route and skies for other aircraft, using SwissDrones SVO 50 V2 drones.

    That includes uAvionix Corp. and, last week, infrastructure inspection company Phoenix Air Unmanned.

    The news comes just a few days after Walmart announced it’s partnering with Wing to make deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

    It’s not clear what the number is now, but that’s well behind Amazon’s previous projection that it’d complete 10,000 deliveries to customers via drone by the end of 2023.

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