The US Internet giant Amazon, is aware that delivery technology must somehow evolve in step with technological advances . According to the newspaper The Guardian, test flying unmanned couriers Amazon by a group of divers specialists are now conducted in the territory of one of Canada provinces - the country is not so remote from the US, but more favorable to such experiments.
Ideally, Amazon claims the automatic navigation of aircraft at altitudes of 60 to 300 meters, where the main building has come to an end and engineering structures. Aircraft curb weight up to 22 kg will have to move loads of up to 2.2 kg over a distance of at least 16 km at a speed of 80 km / h. This here is an intricate set intersection. According to statistics from Amazon, 86% of the ordered goods have a lot of customers no more than 2.2 kg.
The tests are carried out at the site for several months, including prototypes drones have one with vertical take-off function that can be moved in a horizontal direction at a decent speed. As conceived by Amazon, unmanned carrier would be able to deliver the goods by local residents for half an hour after ordering. In some cities in the US company now offers express products delivery , and the emergence of unmanned delivery vehicles only would expand this practice.
In Canada, to obtain necessary to conduct test flights in a limited area Amazon managed in just three weeks. Amazon is going to make use in the course of testing experience in Canada to improve the design and management systems of its drones. Until they are extremely safe, consumers will not see them. US regulators last year received 750 applications for the testing of aircraft in the open, but only 48 of them have been approved. Among them was the application Amazon, but as long as she passed approval, the prototype had hopelessly outdated and lost prospects of becoming a commercial product.