FAA grounds Amazon’s drone delivery plans

Last December, Jeff Bezos raised the possibility of Amazon-branded drone based delivery.

I do love the impractical fantasy of that idea but, alas, the FAA has officially put the kibosh on it, in a document released Monday:

Under a graphic that says what is barred, the FAA mentioned the “Delivering of packages to people for a fee.” A footnote added, “If an individual offers free shipping in association with a purchase or other offer, FAA would construe the shipping to be in furtherance of a business purpose, and thus, the operation would not fall within the statutory requirement of recreation or hobby purpose.”