Amazon's redesigned Prime Air delivery drone can fly farther than its predecessor | Engadget

Amazon's redesigned Prime Air delivery drone can fly farther than its predecessor

based on the images the e-commerce giant has shared, except it no longer has a full hexagonal frame. in College Station, Texas and Lockeford, California later this year to help it gauge people's interest in getting their orders flown over and dropped into their yards. Amazon will be using MK27-2 for those tests — this model won't be in service until 2024.

of drone package deliveries in College Station, the noise MK27-2 makes would be unlikely to cause disturbance and is"not expected to affect wildlife behavior..." Amazon treats reducing the noise its drones make as an important engineering challenge, though, and it believes all of the MK30's qualities combined would enable customers to"choose drone delivery more often.

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