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      According to December 3rd, 2013, Pulse Video Star, Wall Street Journal reported that online retailer Amazon hopes to have mini drones delivering packages to customers in just 30 minutes, its chief executive has claimed.

      Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said it was possible Amazon could introduce the drones within four to five years, depending in part on Federal Aviation Administration approvals.

      During a TV appearance in the United States, Jeff Bezos played a video showing the tiny robotic devices, known as octocopters, which pick up items in small yellow buckets and whiz them through the air.

      I know this looks like science fiction. It's not, Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes show.

      We can do half-hour delivery ... and we can carry objects, we think, up to 5lbs, which covers 86% of the items that we deliver.

      The mini drones are powered by electric motors and are claimed to cover areas within a 10-mile radius of distribution centres, allowing Amazon to cover a significant portion of the population in urban areas in the US.

      The concept requires additional safety testing and federal approval, but Mr Bezos estimates the service could be up and running within five years.

      The mini drones are said to operate autonomously and drop items at target locations which GPS coordinates transmitted to them.

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      Speaking of drone, reminds of Boeing UAV: Boeing AH-6 which is The Boeing AH-6 is a series of light helicopter gunships based on the MH-6 Little Bird and MD 500 family. Developed by Boeing Rotorcraft Systems, these include the Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) demonstrator, the A/MH-6X Mission Enhanced Little Bird (MELB), and the proposed AH-6I and AH-6S.

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      On September 20, 2006, the first A/MH-6X lifted off on its maiden flight from Boeing Rotorcraft Systems' Mesa, Arizona facility with a pilot on board. While the ULB Demonstrator had a payload of 2,400 pounds, the MELB has an additional 1,000 pounds payload capacity. The A/MH-6X is similar to the A/MH-6M, but includes a prototype glass cockpit and a number of upgrades to the electronics and avionics.[5] The A/MH-6X is an optionally manned or unmanned aircraft which is a hybrid of the ULB demonstrator and the A/MH-6M mission-enhanced Little Bird which is used by US Army Special Operations Command.

      Boeing funded the development program itself; it intends to market the aircraft for both military and homeland security roles within the U.S. and internationally.[5] The aircraft is estimated to cost US$2 million. The systems related to the unmanned flight capabilities have also been designed to be able to be installed in any other helicopter as well, including the Apache. An Unmanned Little Bird performed a fully autonomous flight in June 2010, including avoiding obstacles using LIDARL.

      In December 2012, Boeing demonstrated the Unmanned Little Bird version of the AH-6 to the South Korean Army. The aircraft flew autonomously for 25 minutes to demonstrate the unmanned system's capabilities that can be integrated into Army MD 500 Defender helicoptersv

    The following is AH-6 specification:

      General characteristics

      Crew: 1-2

      Capacity: 5 total

      Length: 32 ft 7 in (9.94 m)

      Rotor diameter: 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)

      Height: 8 ft 9 in (2.48 m)

      Disc area: 587.5 sq ft (54.6 m²)

      Empty weight: 1,591 lb (722 kg)

      Max. takeoff weight: 3,100 lb (1,610 kg)

      Powerplant: 1 × One Allison 250-C30 250-C30 turboshaft, 425 shp (317 kW) takeoff power (derated)

      Performance

      Maximum speed: 152 knots (175 mph, 282 km/h)

      Cruise speed: 135 kn (155 mph, 250 km/h)

      Range: 232 nmi (267 mi, 430 km)

      Service ceiling: 18,700 ft (5,700 m)

      Rate of climb: 2,070 ft/min (10.5 m/s)

      Armament

      Guns:

      1× 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun; or

      2× 12.7 mm (.50 cal) GAU-19; or

      2× 7.62 mm (0.30 in) M134 MinigunP

      Rockets:

      2× LAU-68D/A 7-tubes rocket pods firing 2.75 in (70 mm) Hydra 70 rocket projectiles

      Rockets:

      2× LAU-68D/A 7-tubes rocket pods firing 2.75 in (70 mm) Hydra 70 rocket projectiles

      Missiles:

      Anti-tank guided missile: 2× AGM-114 Hellfire

      Anti-air missile: 2× FIM-92 Stinger for self-defense

      There are many different type of UAV, If I can think of another Boeing UAV, In 2007, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed a program to develop technology for a UAV with an endurance capability of over 5 years. The program, entitled VULTURE (Very-high altitude, Ultra-endurance, Loitering Theater Unmanned Reconnaissance Element), entered Phase II on September 14, 2010, with a contract signed with Boeing for development of the SolarEagle flight demonstrator.

      In September 2010, According to Boeing News, Boeing introduced Solar Eagle SolarEagle is a uniquely configured, large unmanned aircraft designed to eventually remain on station at stratospheric altitudes for at least five years, said Pat O'Neil, Boeing Phantom Works program manager for Vulture II. That's a daunting task, but Boeing has a highly reliable solar-electric design that will meet the challenge in order to perform persistent communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions from altitudes above 60,000 feet. SolarEagle is one of Phantom Works' rapid prototyping efforts, which also include Phantom Ray, a fighter-sized, unmanned, advanced technology first flight was in early 2011, and the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye demonstrator, a High Altitude Long Endurance aircraft designed to stay aloft for up to four days.

      Unmanned aerial vehicles, known variously as UAVs, drones, and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs), have been a feature of aviation for much of its history, though often overlooked.

      The appeal of a military vehicle in which there is no risk of loss of life is quite strong, so the pace of development of UAVs has always reflected the pace of technology in general. Until recently, UAVs have tended to be small, so they depend on technology miniaturization even more than their manned siblings. In the 21st century, the technology has reached a point of sophistication that the UAV is now being given a greatly expanded role in war fighting. In 2002, PBS NOVA had program about UAVs and it's history show with the following upto 2002 which USA UAVs history started since 1903.

    It is interesting to find out that UAV history had some link of with movie star Marilyn Monroe who used be Norma Jeane.

    The first large-scale production, purpose-built drone was the product of Reginald Denny. He served with the British Royal Flying Corps during World War I, and after the war, immigrated to the United States to seek his fortunes in Hollywood as an actor. Denny had made a name for himself as an actor, and between acting jobs, he pursued his interest in radio control model aircraft in the 1930s. He and his business partners formed Reginald Denny Industries and opened a model plane shop in 1934 on Hollywood Boulevard known as Reginald Denny Hobby Shops .

    The shop evolved into the Radioplane Company . Denny believed that low-cost RC aircraft would be very useful for training anti-aircraft gunners, and in 1935 he demonstrated a prototype target drone, the RP-1, to the US Army. Denny then bought a design from Walter Righter in 1938 and began marketing it to hobbyists as the Dennymite , and demonstrated it to the Army as the RP-2, and after modifications as the RP-3 and RP-4 in 1939. In 1940, Denny and his partners won an Army contract for their radio controlled RP-4, which became the Radioplane OQ-2. They manufactured nearly fifteen thousand drones for the army during World War II.

    It was at the Van Nuys Radioplane factory that in 1944 that Army photographer David Conover saw a young lady named Norma Jeane, and thought she had potential as a model. This discovery led to fame for Jeane, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

    Anyhow, Boeing's The first operational decoy drone was the McDonnell Douglas ADM-20 Quail , which was carried by Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers to help them penetrate defended airspace including Boeing Compass Copes,and Boeing Continues Testing to improve future UAVs.

    There many other UAVs besides Boeing A160 Hummingbird, Insitu ScanEagle, DARPA Vulture, Maverick and Renegade UAVs, Boeing Condor, Boeing AH-6).

    As Its flight is controlled either autonomously by computers in the vehicle or under the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle. The typical launch and recovery method of an unmanned aircraft is by the function of an automatic system or an external operator on the ground.

    An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), drone, aircraft without a human pilot on board have saved so many lives and many countries with long history of suveilance and great deal of peace solution tool as preventing the danger situations which there are a wide variety of UAV shapes, sizes, configurations, and characteristics. Historically, UAVs were simple remotely piloted aircraft, but autonomous control is increasingly being employed.

    They are usually deployed for military and special operation applications, but also used in a small but growing number of civil applications, such as policing and firefighting, and nonmilitary security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. UAVs are often preferred for missions that are too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for manned aircraft.

    The Following examples to show other UAVs:

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Sources: USA Today News, Wall Street Journal Live, Boeing, Boeing Frontiers: Dec. 2004), Global Security, Wikipedia, Youtube, PBS, Marilyn Monroe and Airplane
catch4all.com, Sandra Englund, December 3rd, 2013

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