The Omaha metro area is set to become the 11th city in the United States to use Amazon Prime Air, the company’s self-flying drone delivery system. Deliveries are expected to begin out of a Papillion warehouse by the end of summer.
The drones deliver packages under 5 pounds within about 8 miles of the Papillion facility. Amazon will operate 12 drones in the market.
“There will just be 12 drones and in theory if there’s enough demand, if everybody wants to order they could all be in the air at once,” Senior Manager of Prime Air Commercial Operations Josh Brundage said…