{"id":268931,"date":"2019-04-10T04:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268931"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:19:53","slug":"in-a-first-google-drone-will-start-deliveries-of-takeaways-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-a-first-google-drone-will-start-deliveries-of-takeaways-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, Google drone will start deliveries of takeaways in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google-linked firm will start delivering takeaways and other small items to Canberra residents after the company received approval from aviation watchdogs in Australia on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Drone company &#8220;Wing&#8221; &#8212; an offshoot of Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet &#8212; has been trialling deliveries for the last 18 months, but will now be able to go ahead full time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have approved Wing Aviation Pty Ltd to operate ongoing delivery drone operations in North Canberra,&#8221; the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had been delivering &#8220;food and drinks, over-the-counter chemist items, and locally-made coffee and chocolate&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google-linked firm will start delivering takeaways and other small items to Canberra residents after the company received approval from aviation watchdogs in Australia on Tuesday. Drone company &#8220;Wing&#8221; &#8212; an offshoot of Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet &#8212; has been trialling deliveries for the last 18 months, but will now be able to go ahead full time. &#8220;We have approved Wing Aviation Pty Ltd to operate ongoing delivery drone operations in North Canberra,&#8221; the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said on Tuesday. The company said it had been delivering &#8220;food and drinks, over-the-counter chemist items, and locally-made coffee and chocolate&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}