Aviation Week reports that 10 years “into its development of a delivery drone, Amazon has started flying packages to customers at locations in Texas and California.” Amazon started “drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, on Dec. 22, the company confirmed to AAM Report.”
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Amazon’s New Delivery Drone
CNBC reported that Amazon’s new delivery drone, the MK27-2, will begin making deliveries in two markets in California and Texas by the end of this year. The drone will drop packages from 12 feet in the air on delivery. “It can only carry packages weighing less than five pounds, and deliveries must fit in one box about the size of a shoe box.”
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Beta Technologies Flies Alia Aircraft between Amazon Air Hubs
Aviation Week reports that Beta Technologies “has flown its Alia electric aircraft between two Amazon Air hubs, completing a 31-min. flight between Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and Wilmington Air Park in Ohio.”
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Amazon Leases Cargo Airplanes to Bypass Supply Chain Chaos
CNBC reported that Amazon’s leasing of long-haul cargo airplanes is “helping it avoid the long wait times for available dock space and workers at the country’s busiest ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.” Amazon is “avoiding ports altogether by reportedly leasing at least ten long-haul planes that can get smaller amounts of cargo directly from China to the U.S. much faster.” One of Amazon’s “converted Boeing 777 planes can carry 220,000 pounds of cargo.”
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