Wings to launch Drone Delivery in Dallas-Fort Worth area

Alphabet’s Wing is launching a drone-delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Its largest customer in the USA, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc will stage deliveries from a store parking lot in the town of Little Elm, Texas. Customers will be able to select from 100 items from its drone delivery app. 

The company also operates commercial drone services in Christianburg, Finland and Australia. According to the company, most of its 200,000 commercial drone deliveries have been made in Australia. Drone companies have been expanding their operations in the USA as technology for air delivery improves. 

Wing’s drones travel 65 miles per hour and are able to carry 3.3 pounds of goods. Travel time to a destination is typically under 10 minutes. The company also claims that drones have a range of 12 miles round trip. The package automatically gets unhooked from the drone and the drone flies back to the staging station. 

The regulations to allow authorisation is still being developed by the FAA as no drone delivery company is fully certified in the USA to fly everywhere without a human controlling or monitoring the aircraft.