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Wing and Walmart pitch residential drone deliveries, ask city for permitting guidance
Summary
Wing, Walmart’s drone partner, briefed Woodstock City Council on a proposed residential delivery program centered at Walmart store nests with 18-pad layouts, 2.5-pound payload limits and daytime operations; company asked for local permitting guidance and pledged community outreach and safety measures governed by FAA Part 135 rules.
Wing, the drone delivery partner working with Walmart, presented a plan to offer residential drone deliveries to parts of Woodstock on Aug. 18, saying the service would rely on fenced “nests” at Walmart stores, automated autoloaders and FAA-regulated flight operations.
"We're really excited to be expanding our partnership with Walmart from the state of Texas to Georgia," Kathryn Lovett, local policy and community affairs manager for Wing, told the City Council. She said Woodstock could be one of the first Georgia sites for Wing's residential service.
Wing outlined the system's limits and safeguards: the aircraft used in the U.S. operation weighs about 11 pounds, carries a maximum payload of 2.5 pounds, and has a nominal planning radius of up to six miles from a store but is typically limited to roughly a four-mile practical radius…
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