Alphabet's Wing drone will soon deliver Walgreens, FedEx packages

Virginia, get ready for some air drops. 

Wing, Google's drone spinoff company operating under parent company Alphabet, announced this week that a pilot program next month will offer Christiansburg, Virginia residents drone deliveries for FedEx, Walgreens, and local shop Sugar Magnolia.

This is Wing's first U.S. delivery trial. It started testing its store-to-customers flight system in Australia and Finland this year The company that came out of Google's X division says it's completed 80,000 flights on three continents.

In April, Wing was granted Federal Aviation Administration certification to operate a drone delivery program. The Virginia trial is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program. Read more...