Trying to find your Amazon package? Just look up.
Amazon Prime Air, the company’s drone delivery program, is set to take flight in Baton Rouge by mid-summer. Prime Air representatives presented the drone in an event downtown Wednesday at the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry Center for Free Enterprise.
It’s no ordinary drone — it’s roughly the size of a petite individual standing at 5 feet tall and weighing in at 80 pounds, with six motors resembling small wind turbines. It’s powered by three independent batteries — designed so the drone can return to its launchpad if one fails — and can zoom up to 70 miles per hour autonomously, meaning it is not manually controlled during flight…