The wing of the alphabet gets the FAA license to move drones for US supplies

It is a concept that has been plagued by megacities for years, but has only made significant progress in recent years: the delivery of drone. For Google, Project Wing was developed 6 years ago as a way to shoot dog food from a local store to your house. Today, the FAA announced that Wing, now bona fide Alphabet Company, has become the first drone delivery company to receive an Air Carrier certification, meaning it can now legally do business in the United States.

On its medium blog, Wing said it had to meet stringent safety requirements by submitting evidence from over 70,000 test planes and more than 3,000 deliveries in Australia ̵[ads1]1; probably enough, to ensure that a delivery drone " has lower risk for pedestrians than the same trip done by car. "

The company will use its participation in the FAA's Unmanned Aviation System Integration Pilot Program to conduct research in southwest Virginia with Blacksburg and Christiansburg as key areas of testing, partnership, and surveying. An experimental food delivery program is expected to start in the area "later this year."

Earlier this month, Wing began commercial service in the Australian Capital Territory, which supplied food and medicine to Canberra's northern suburbs. It hopes to start the business in Helsinki, Finland, in the quarter.