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Japan Post to deliver regular mail by drone
Japan Post, the country’s postal service, is one step closer to making letter delivery by drone a reality. The postal service partnered with local drone manufacturer ACSL in December 2022 to develop a drone with level four autonomy and a…
Amazon’s Drone Business Struggles with FAA Drone Regulations and Weak Demand
Amazon’s drone delivery service, Prime Air, has been in the works for a decade, but the company is still struggling with drone regulations and weak demand. Despite its recent launch in two small test markets, Amazon has a long way…
Florida House Subcommittee approves bill to ease drone delivery regulations for Walmart
A bill that would make it easier to build drone ports and make it harder for local governments to oppose them is currently being considered by lawmakers in the state of Florida. This development comes on the heels of Walmart’s…
DJI Mavic 3 Payload Release – Anyone Can Do Drone Delivery!
Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. Today we’re going to check out a payload release system for the DJI Mavic 3 drone. There’s something that I want to try. You know, after you’ve been flying drones for quite a while,…
Alphabet’s Wing Announces Autonomous Drone Delivery Expansion
Wing, the drone delivery company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced it will expand its autonomous drone delivery system beyond the original test cities of Canberra (Australia), Helsinki (Finland), Christiansburg (Virginia, US), and the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Texas, US).…
Man finds $45k of contraband from drone delivery gone wrong
A man from Montreal found a large package containing cannabis, cell phones, and other contraband hanging from his clothesline, which he believed fell from a drone. “Personally, I would have preferred to win an amount with Loto-Québec!” said the man…
Rec Night Flying in Controlled, Freefly Grounding Astro, Spright gets Nationwide BVLOS
All right. This week in drone news, we have three stories for you. The recreational LAANC is finally enabled for night flights. That’s a big deal. Freefly Systems is grounding a bunch of their aircraft, and then Spright gets nationwide…
Walmart ready for drone delivery at scale with multi-carrier 5G approach
Walmart said that with 4,700 stores spread across 90% of the US population, it can now offer “drone delivery at scale” because 90% of the US population lives near at least one of its stores. Over the holidays, Walmart’s drone…
Drone News: Drone Layoffs, Cessna 172 Drone Crash, and Investors for Airbus’ Zephyr Project
This week in Drone News, we have three stories for you. Amazon and other drone companies are laying off employees. This is sad news, a follow-up on a crash that happened between a drone and a Cessna 172. There’s more…
Amazon Prime Air lays off 80% of flight operations personnel
Today, we learn that Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery business, laid off around 80% of its flight operations personnel without a proper warning. According to a now-former Amazon employee, personnel in all of Amazon’s drone delivery business locations, including Lockeford,…
Former Amazon manager claims he lost his job over drone safety concerns
Cheddi Skeete says he was fired from Amazon Prime Air, the company’s drone delivery business, less than two years after he started working there as a manager. Skeete claims he was fired because he raised drone safety concerns. Shortly after…
Glendale residents tell Walmart to stop delivery drones: “Do it somewhere else.”
People living in a peaceful neighborhood near 59th Avenue and Bell Road in Glendale, AZ, were in for a rude awakening when Walmart began testing its large delivery drones in the area. The residents have reported hearing something that sounded…