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Originally Posted by Goldwingnut
UPS currently has someone at the receiving end that unloads the drone and completes the delivery to the door. For this flight at the receiving end was 2 delivery people, another UAS pilot, the Director of Engineering and the President of UPS Flight Forward division.
Those 14" carbon fiber blades spinning a greater than 5000 RPM are deadly and will easily take off a finger or a hand if not careful. One of the many things they have to take into consideration. I have scars from the props on my drones where stupidity stepped a little to close and paid the price.
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Like flying weed whackers! (Laughing) Edward Scissorhands would be envious. And remember that guy in the Carl Hiassen novel whose arm is amputated, so he has a weed whacker installed as a prosthesis?
Do you figure that if the flights are all landing at one site, there will be automated take-offs and landings, with little need for a remote operator doing the actual flying. Primarily GPS flying?