{"id":112249,"date":"2020-08-31T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/amazon-prime-air-lands-faa-approval-for-drone-deliveries"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:22:41","slug":"amazon-prime-air-lands-faa-approval-for-drone-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/amazon-prime-air-lands-faa-approval-for-drone-deliveries","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Air lands FAA approval for drone deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-prime-air-lands-faa-approval-for-drone-deliveries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon Prime Air has cleared a regulatory hurdle, moving the online retail giant one step closer to dropping packages off at your doorstep with drones. The US Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday issued Amazon Prime Air a \u201ca Part 135 air carrier certificate,\u201d allowing it to begin commercial drone deliveries in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon Prime Air\u2019s concept uses autonomous [unmanned aircraft systems] to safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers,\u201d said a spokesperson for the FAA on Monday. \u201cThe FAA supports innovation that is beneficial to the public, especially during a health or weather-related crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Amazon and other companies are trying to make drones the future of deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Prime Air has cleared a regulatory hurdle, moving the online retail giant one step closer to dropping packages off at your doorstep with drones. The US Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday issued Amazon Prime Air a \u201ca Part 135 air carrier certificate,\u201d allowing it to begin commercial drone deliveries in the US. \u201cAmazon Prime [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}