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Wing will spend up to $125 million on a 15,000 sq ft Fort Worth plant sized for tens of thousands of drones a year, a day after Zipline raised $1.5 billion.
Zipline closed $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation and a Walmart deal for 300 more sites. Walmart's whole drone program was 66 stores in May.
AUVSI's Nov. 9-10 symposium lists four FCC officials, enforcement chief Hunter Deeley among them, and four from the FAA, with Part 108 still unpublished.
The FCC voted 3-0 to end a 1991 airborne ban and open 50 MHz of 800 MHz cellular spectrum to drones. The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule is due December 7.
Amazon has listed drones on 52 straight federal lobbying reports. Its Part 108 comment asks for a path past the 110-pound cap and never says parachute.
Part 2 with Amy Wiegand: how drone service providers handle regulation they can't control, build a 30, 60, 90-day plan, and what will separate survivors.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.
Zipline is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $20 billion valuation, nearly triple its January price. The FAA rule its US plan needs is still unpublished.
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