Amazon Prime has come up with an amazing new technology involving aviation-- Amazon Prime Air. The goal of the company is to have customers' packages to their front door within thirty minutes of ordering from Amazon.com. To do this, Amazon would be using unmanned aerial vehicles to get their products to their consumers in such a short period of time. View the video of a recent test flight here:
http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011
According to their website, seeing a fleet of Amazon Prime Air drones in the sky will one day be as common as seeing delivery trucks on the road is today! How futuristic (and a bit scary!) The website also says that they will be ready to provide this service in 2015 when the FAA sets their rules in place to ensure public safety.
The technological advances of aviation today are quite mind-blowing. I wonder what the Wright brothers would say if they saw this today?
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