Amazon to test drones: should manufacturers be excited?

Posted on 23 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess

Online shopping giant, Amazon, has been given the green light to begin test flights of piloted delivery drones.

The approval for the test flights was given by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which stipulated that tests must be conducted in daylight hours and only up to an altitude of 400 feet. The approval is a major step for Amazon, which hopes to use drones to deliver small packages right to people’s doorsteps. Amazon has been granted an…

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