Amazon is one big step closer to delivering packages by drone
The MK27 drone that Amazon is planning on using for its package-delivery testing. (Amazon /)For years, Amazon has envisioned deploying drones to deliver packages to customers’ yards. In the company’s plan, an electric aerial vehicle would take off from a distribution center, cruise some 15 miles or less, and deposit whatever small item an American consumer wants faster than they can say, “Alexa, send me Air Jordans, but do it via the air.” (Technically, Amazon aims for the drone deliveries to take half an hour or less.)In late August, the Federal Aviation Administration gave the company a green light to keep pushing the program forward in the national airspace; read more about the details in this FAA decision document.Amazon calls the service Prime Air, and it relies on a drone known as the MK27, which Amazon showed off last year. Like many other drones, it employs multiple propellers that allow...