Google's project wing unveiled a drone that can fly five miles in one minute and this has been the companies counter to Amazon's delivery drone. The company filed documents to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to register their two UAV's named M2 and B3, after their testing on the X project wing concepts in Australia.
M2 was registered on Oct. 2 and B3 on Oct. 7. This is a significant action of Google since they've been cutting the FAA rules with their joint project with NASA via a Certificate of Waiver of Authorization to test project wing UAV drone. Apparently the company found a loophole in the FAA's rule with the collaborative project with NASA.
Each of the model is registered with the FAA as fixed wing multi engine aircraft. The head of Google X, Astro Teller said that the company was working on a single wing based approach design. Both drones weigh approximately 55 pounds and capable of speed up to 100 miles per hour.
Google actually started testing their UAV drone in the US in an isolated part of California last August and with the help of NASA they've mended some ground rules of the FAA.
The latest drone was designed in a more conventional quadcopter shape with the addition of aerofoils. The Google's project wing changed a lot since it was first introduced in public before it looks like a big fixed wing aircraft coupled with propeller lining in the edges.
It's not only Google and Amazon that's trying to launch their commercial UAV's in public. The Flirtey Company, an Australian drone manufacturer, partnered with NASA also displayed their first successful drone delivery of medicine last July in the U.S.
Google aims that their delivery drone may be able to deliver goods and resources to difficult terrains and place and cut out pollution in the process.
