{"id":411821,"date":"2021-04-24T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411821"},"modified":"2021-04-24T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:47:27","slug":"alphabet-unit-wing-seeks-faa-ok-to-help-expand-us-drone-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/alphabet-unit-wing-seeks-faa-ok-to-help-expand-us-drone-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet unit Wing seeks FAA OK to help expand US drone operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, &#8211; Alphabet&#8217;s Wing Aviation unit asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to waive some drone rules, a move that would allow it expand operations beyond a small city in Virginia, the FAA said in a notice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, Wing has provided several thousand direct-to-home and on-demand delivery services to residents in Christiansburg, Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wing is now seeking to expand and improve upon these operations to serve additional communities,&#8221; Wing said in asking the FAA for exemptions from some drone rules. The agency said it would accept public comments on the petition before making a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, &#8211; Alphabet&#8217;s Wing Aviation unit asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to waive some drone rules, a move that would allow it expand operations beyond a small city in Virginia, the FAA said in a notice on Friday. Since 2019, Wing has provided several thousand direct-to-home and on-demand delivery services to residents in Christiansburg, Virginia. &#8220;Wing is now seeking to expand and improve upon these operations to serve additional communities,&#8221; Wing said in asking the FAA for exemptions from some drone rules. The agency said it would accept public comments on the petition before making a decision.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411821","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=411821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}