UK: Amazon Wants To Expand Drone Service and Seeks UK Drone Experts

[engine]

Now, as an expert, what do they mean: Can I fly a drone?

UK drone experts are being sought by Amazon to help with its fledgling drone-based delivery service.

Amazon's Prime Air will use small drones to deliver packages up to 2.3kg (5lb) in weight to customers within 30 minutes of an order being placed.

Drone testing will take place in Cambridge at a site Amazon acquired when it bought Evi Technologies.

Prime Air-related ads for engineers, software developers and scientists have now appeared on Amazon's jobs site.UK: Amazon Wants To Expand Drone Service and Seeks UK Drone Experts [bbc.co.uk]

[dstiles]

According to the paper press, about 5 years real flying AND drone flying and preferably military experience.

The former makes sense, the latter is worrying. Do they intend to shoot down any interceptors such as pirates, revenue agents or aviation investigators?

I really, really hope their aircraft are better designed, maintained and secured than most of the internet. It would only take one hacker to be successful in order to kill quite a few people.