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Air traffic control for delivery drones [Top Tech 2017]

David E. Schneider

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Abstract

In 2013, shortly before Christmas, Amazon.com released a video depicting its plans to speed packages to their destinations using small drones. Some commentators said it was just a publicity stunt. But the notion began to seem less far-fetched when Google revealed its own drone-based delivery effort in 2014, something it calls Project Wing. And in the early months of 2016, DHL actually integrated drones into its logistics network, albeit in an extremely limited way-delivering packages to a single mountaintop in Germany that is difficult to access by car in winter.

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In 2013, shortly before Christmas, Amazon.com released a video depicting its plans to speed packages to their destinations using small drones. Some commentators said it was just a publicity stunt. But the notion began to seem less far-fetched when Google revealed its own drone-based delivery effort in 2014, something it calls Project Wing. And in the early months of 2016, DHL actually integrated drones into its logistics network, albeit in an extremely limited way-delivering packages to a single mountaintop in Germany that is difficult to access by car in winter.

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In 2013, shortly before Christmas, Amazon.com released a video depicting its plans to speed packages to their destinations using small drones. Some commentators said it was just a publicity stunt. But the notion began to seem less far-fetched when Google revealed its own drone-based delivery effort in 2014, something it calls Project Wing. And in the early months of 2016, DHL actually integrated drones into its logistics network, albeit in an extremely limited way-delivering packages to a single mountaintop in Germany that is difficult to access by car in winter.

Key concepts: Drone, Publicity, Aeronautics, Air traffic control, Control (management), Destinations, Advertising, Engineering

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