Amazon testing ‘octocopter’ package-delivery drones

As told on CBS 60 Minutes and reported on C|Net.com

Amazon Prime Air might someday get a package to you within 30 minutes… via octocopter, says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

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It might only be coincidental that the Amazon story aired on 60 Minutes the Sunday night prior to ‘Cyber Monday’, but there’s no doubt that the fifteen minute segment had a positive impact on Amazon’s sales during the biggest online shopping day of the holiday season…

Be that as it may… The use of unmanned aircraft, ‘drones’, in making every day residential deliveries faces significant challenges and is likely years beyond the 2015 deadline Congress has given the FAA for implementing regulations for sUAS.

Click the link below to read the article and view the 60 minute segment on the C|Net website.

Amazon testing ‘octocopter’ package-delivery drones

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Rich Hanson
AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs