DHL Set to Use Drones in Delivery Project, Beating Amazon, Google

Logistics company DHL is using a drone to fly parcels to a German island, beating Amazon and Google to the punch. DHL, owned by Germany's Deutsche Post, will start delivering medicine and other urgent goods to Juist, a German island in the North Sea, using its 'parcelcopter'. Deutsche Post has received permission from the German transport ministry and air traffic control authority for restricted flight area for the project. DHL says it marks the first and only time in Europe that a flight by an unmanned aircraft will be operated outside of the pilot's field of vision in a real-life mission. Amazon and Google have each said their use of drones are years away from routine deployment.