Norwegian P-3B at NAS Moffett in 1969 With the blimp hangar still in one piece - Picture: Per Gram
Amazon, NASA and what's holding the drone economy
back
The flat, sprawling expanse that once served as Silicon Valley's federal
airfield - and has since been leased to Google for the company's own aerospace
and robotics research - provided a fitting backdrop this week for a meeting of
the aviation and high-tech sectors.
In a far-flung corner of the guarded campus at Moffett Field, past the
retro military commissary and other relics from facility's heyday as a hub for
government-powered space exploration, a series of white tents have been arranged
behind a high barbed wire fence.
Despite the low-tech ambiance, the meeting convened by NASA and the
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International has a decidedly high-tech
focus: charting a more coherent path forward on the deployment of drone
technology.
"This is really a call to action," said Gur Kimchi, vice president and
co-founder of Amazon Prime Air. "We need to come together as an industry."
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