A few years ago, the Triangle was the hot spot in North Carolina for what seemed like some futuristic thing out of the Jetsons: deliveries from the sky by drone.
WakeMed was using drones to move lab samples across its campus in Raleigh. People could get prescription drugs delivered by drone to their home in Cary or dinner lowered from a drone into their backyard in Holly Springs.
Now all that has ended. Drone-maker Flytrex and operator Causey Aviation made their last food delivery from the Holly Springs Towne Center earlier this year, bringing the region’s flirtation with the future to a close for now…