>We hope the FAA's rules will be in place as early as sometime in 2015 Well, it is carefully crafted to say the rules will be in place, not the technology. The

>We hope the FAA's rules will be in place as early as sometime in 2015 Well, it is carefully crafted to say the rules will be in place, not the technology. The FAA could say Amazon needs to do X first where X is any one of the challenges you mentioned. I'm glad they put that in, though, because otherwise the threads are always full of "The FAA will never allow this" comments. The wording gives me a reassuring feeling that Amazon knows how much hard work it will take to accomplish.