Amazon hot air balloon Prime Air patent describes stealthy delivery drones

[Cmeflydrone]

Thought the group might find this interesting:

Amazon Hot Air Balloon Prime Air Patent Describes Stealthy Delivery Drones

Amazon has patented a drone that can turn into a mini airship, a tech mashup that we'd assume was a late April Fools' joke were…

www.slashgear.com

 

[AMann]

Oh man, I thought about doing something like that about 10 years ago! amazon must have scanned my brain for it’s vast archive of wacky ideas or something.

 

[dirkclod]

 

[AMann]

At first I was like then I was like now I’m like .

Pregnant blimp gives birth to little blimpy things.

 

[dirkclod]

Da Mothership

 

[AMann]

Da Mothership

Don’t show this in that other thread...

 

[Bryce steiner]

That was an April fools joke.

This is not real footage of an Amazon drone-delivery blimp

A video clip purporting to show delivery drones emerging from a giant blimp with the Amazon logo on it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in online posts with captions such as: “A step closer to the dystopian world I crave”. The video is actually computer-generated and was created by...

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[dirkclod]

So I was late

 

[AMann]

Lalalalalalalaal

I believe...

 

[JakeRobinson]

The video Maybe concept however the patent is real. Amazon really wants to do something like this

 

[BossBob]

A hot air balloon is anything but stealthy. The noise when the burner is being used is way louder than my Mavic at the same distance.

 

[Nicolas]

April Fool this year, reality soon