{"id":117407,"date":"2020-12-20T00:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/droneups-waiver-for-flight-over-people-is-a-major-step-for-drone-delivery"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:34:16","slug":"droneups-waiver-for-flight-over-people-is-a-major-step-for-drone-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/droneups-waiver-for-flight-over-people-is-a-major-step-for-drone-delivery","title":{"rendered":"DroneUp\u2019s Waiver for Flight Over People is a Major Step for Drone Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/droneups-waiver-for-flight-over-people-is-a-major-step-for-drone-delivery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drone services company <a href=\"http:\/\/droneup.com\">DroneUp<\/a> has been approved for an industry-first FAA Waiver for flight over people and moving vehicles to support drone delivery of COVID-19 test kits anywhere in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Scaling drone delivery throughout the country will require <a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2020\/11\/19\/drone-flight-over-people-what-it-means-when-its-allowed-and-the-concept-of-hazardous-operation\/\">flight over people<\/a> and moving vehicles, something that U.S. drone regulations currently prohibit without a waiver. Now, DroneUp, LLC announces that it has been approved \u201cfor the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Section 107.39 Operation Over People Waiver allowing the unrestricted flight over non-participating persons and moving vehicles to support the drone delivery of COVID-19 test kits,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDroneUp\u2019s 107.39 waiver is the first to allow drone delivery operations over people anywhere in the United States without predefined operating areas, locations, or routes. The waiver is also a first to allow unrestricted delivery overflight of moving vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone services company DroneUp has been approved for an industry-first FAA Waiver for flight over people and moving vehicles to support drone delivery of COVID-19 test kits anywhere in the U.S. Scaling drone delivery throughout the country will require flight over people and moving vehicles, something that U.S. drone regulations currently prohibit without a waiver. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117407","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}