Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service is taking flight in California

Amazon has been at work on bringing 30-minute drone deliveries to fruition since 2013.

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Former CEO Jeff Bezos hoped the service would launch in 2015, but it didn’t. Now the ecommerce giant says its Prime Air service is almost ready.

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Amazon customers in Lockeford, California will begin seeing Prime Air deliveries later this year.

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Amazon offered some reasoning for why Prime Air has taken so long to deploy (aside from multiple drone crashes)

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Amazon has spent about a decade working on a drone service with an “industry-leading” navigation system.

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Amazon has to earn Part 135 certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before it can begin launching its drones.

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If all goes well, it should interesting to see a fleet of drones delivering packages to Amazon customers in California. First there, and then…the world?

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