
Amazon's 83-Pound MK30 Heads To 500 Cities: Parachute Shmarachute
Amazon would not put anyone on the record about the MK30 at Commercial UAV Expo. Its 83-pound drone has no parachute and is headed for 500 US cities.
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Amazon would not put anyone on the record about the MK30 at Commercial UAV Expo. Its 83-pound drone has no parachute and is headed for 500 US cities.

An Amazon MK30 dropped a package into a Texas pool. Zipline's tethered droid and parachute designs show why the 83-pound drone keeps missing.

DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air. The company says aircraft details come later, but its own video already shows the airframe and the propulsion testing.

Wing opened its first Florida market with Walmart in Greater Orlando today, in a state where Walmart's previous drone delivery program shut down in 2024 when the economics stopped working.
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