Seattle – The US online retailer Amazon is working under high pressure in being able to deliver packets faster. So-called Octocopter, ie helicopter with eight propellers to bring goods ordered within 30 minutes to the receiver. This goal, the company is now an important step closer: The competent FAA issued Amazon permission to test a prototype over a rural area in the state of Washington in the open.
The drones can therefore only fly in daylight and in a maximum of 122 meters. You must also remain within sight of that which it controls. The tester must in turn have a private pilot’s license and meet certain medical conditions.The FAA also requires Amazon to make monthly data on the number of test flights and to report any problems. Because of the hitherto missing permission for drone test flights in the US, the mail order company tested the automatic mini aircraft so far on a test site in a plant near the company’s headquarters in Seattle and in countries with less strict traffic rules.
the beginning of December, the Group had complained to the FAA about the lack of permits for drones tests in the United States. Amazon
so then threatened to shift the development of devices in another country. In addition to Amazon and Google and the German postal experiment with drones to deliver packages in the future with miniature airplanes. In Germany, a so-called Paketkopter between Juist Island and the mainland is already being used to deliver drugs across the North Sea.
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