"Amazon’s Stephenson says that the demonstrations weren’t possible, because the FAA didn’t approve the drones to take flight until the end of the year when comm

"Amazon’s Stephenson says that the demonstrations weren’t possible, because the FAA didn’t approve the drones to take flight until the end of the year when commercial operations began." Lie detected. It would've only required a pilot be onsite who is licensed for that class of UAV. As long as the demo flight adhered to published FAA rules, no FAA exemption or approval is needed. The permission is needed when you do things like fly without maintaining line of sight or fly over people.