{"id":22371,"date":"2022-12-09T20:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/take-a-look-inside-a-delivery-drone-command-center\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:31:56","slug":"take-a-look-inside-a-delivery-drone-command-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/take-a-look-inside-a-delivery-drone-command-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Look Inside a Delivery Drone Command Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Working at Wing\u2019s delivery drone command center is pretty similar to being an air traffic controller, except it\u2019s drones carrying things like toothpaste, and not planes with hundreds of people. So way, way fewer lives are at stake.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know what goes on inside a delivery drone command center, or haven\u2019t at all, Wing is giving a look behind the scenes and a day in the life of a commercial drone operator. Perhaps you\u2019re picturing someone in Top Gun<\/em> sunglasses, an orange vest, and waving batons as drones lift off all around them and onlookers mutter, \u201cGodspeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s more like a desk with multiple screens featuring a rudimentary flight simulator, which doesn\u2019t let you fly. At its newest facility in Dallas-Fort Worth metro area (where it operates deliveries for Walgreens, among others), the pilots oversee\u00a0multiple simultaneous flights across entire service areas in\u00a0Texas, Virginia, and as far as Australia.<\/p>\n

Much of the process is automated and there\u2019s actually very little human interaction with the drones, except the part when they\u2019re loaded up. When an order comes in, a partner employee attaches the payload at the \u201cnest,\u201d which is where the drones sit, charge, and shoot the breeze while they wait for their orders (a Pixar film about this seems inevitable).<\/p>\n

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