Syracuse, N.Y. – Amazon’s planned drone delivery service will cover a 176-square-mile area spanning parts of Onondaga and Oswego counties.
Customers within a 7.5-mile radius of the e-commerce giant’s distribution center in Clay would be eligible to have their packages delivered to their homes by drone within an hour of ordering them.
Amazon’s battery-powered MK30 drones can carry packages of up to five pounds and fly 200 feet high. They cruise at up to 74 mph en route to a customer’s home…