U.S. aviation regulators plan to craft new safety standards for specific unmanned-aircraft models, the biggest step yet toward eventually authorizing widespread delivery of packages by drones. The Federal Aviation Administration’s proposal, disclosed on Monday in a Federal Register filing, is couched in dry bureaucratic language but amounts to a major policy and regulatory win for Amazon.com Inc. and other companies seeking to gain approval for various types of drones for small-package delivery fleets.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 03, 2020 21:22 UTC