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Toddler’s Popsicle-by-air marks milestone in U.S. drone delivery

For the first time, delivery flights were allowed over congested areas where people live.

By Alan Levin | Updated on August 08, 2018

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(Bloomberg) – From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.

Just six minutes after a technician from Alphabet Inc.’s Wing clicked the “Confirm Order” button on a smartphone app, a drone operated by the company had flown from a simulated store more than a mile away, hovered over her lawn and lowered the ice cream and Popsicle she’d ordered.

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