Amazon offers to allocate for a separate high-speed drone airspace

Experts highlight the Amazon offers unmanned aircraft airspace from sixty to one hundred and twenty meters. Drones will be able to move in this space at a speed of 111 kilometers per hour, as fast as possible to deliver the products to customers.

Thirty meters above mentioned zones Amazon offers to make a "no-fly" to avoid accidents.

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Amazon предлагает allocate the airspace over cities and suburban areas for high-speed unmanned drone, moving without human intervention as an operator-pilot. In this case, even with the participation of pilots from the past will not be a visual connection with the drones.

This initiative will help Amazon approach to the delivery of parcels for thirty minutes. The company is confident that in the next ten years thousands of small drones will automatically deliver the goods in the United States. Not all of these drones will belong to Amazon.

Experts suggested the use of drones for the allotted space at an altitude of sixty to one hundred meters and thirty meters above - do has been banned to fly to avoid accidents. Drones will fly at a speed of sixty knots - eleven hundred kilometers per hour.



At the moment, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued more than seven hundred permits for the use of drones by commercial companies, but only one of them has the right to deliver the goods. This start Flirtey, which in cooperation with NASA deliver drugs to a remote area of ​​Virginia using multicopter.

NASA in cooperation with Verizon developing a system to track drones that will test Google and Amazon.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/259644/

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