{"id":1695,"date":"2013-12-03T22:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-12-03T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:48:31","slug":"amazon-testing-octocopter-package-delivery-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2013\/12\/03\/amazon-testing-octocopter-package-delivery-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon testing ‘octocopter’ package-delivery drones"},"content":{"rendered":"

As told on CBS 60 Minutes<\/a> and reported on C|Net.com<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Amazon Prime Air might someday get a package to you within 30 minutes… via octocopter, says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.<\/h3>\n

\"Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

It might only be coincidental that the Amazon story aired on 60 Minutes\u00a0the 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…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0has given the FAA for implementing regulations for sUAS.<\/p>\n

Click the link below to read the article and view the 60 minute segment on the C|Net website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Amazon testing ‘octocopter’ package-delivery drones<\/a><\/h4>\n

Read related stories<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

‘What if an Amazon delivery drone crashes into me?’ and 6 other key questions<\/a><\/h4>\n

Amazon drones? Time for a reality check<\/a><\/h4>\n

Underground drone economy takes flight<\/a><\/h4>\n

Rich Hanson
\nAMA Government and Regulatory Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. It might only be coincidental that the Amazon story aired on 60 Minutes\u00a0the Sunday night prior to ‘Cyber Monday’, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}