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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Greg Goss   wrote:   
   >David Friedman  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 3/9/14, 1:00 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >>> wdstarr@panix.com  (William December Starr) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> >>Except the drones almost certainly don't have the range to operate   
   >>>>> >>anywhere but places like Manhattan.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >You load the goods onto the drones and the drones onto a cheap slow   
   >>>> >cargo plane.  Get near the target area and toss 'em out.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >-- wds (I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security won't object.)   
   >>> For one-way deliveries (the kind DHS cares about), that would work.   
   >>> But for more normal cargo operations, you generally want the drone   
   >>> back after the delivery, and this model doesn't work so well.   
   >>   
   >>Why can't the drones be programmed to deliver then return to the cargo   
   >>plane?   
   >   
   >Cargo planes tend to go pretty fast, and rendezvous between two moving   
   >objects gets pretty complicated.   
      
   But we're all proof that it's possible.   
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