Drone-delivery company Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, demoed practice flights at Allbright’s home on Dec. 2. Select items from a Frisco-area Walgreens will be delivered to homes in the city and Little Elm whenever the service launches. The test flights showcased the drones airdropping water bottles in totes onto Allbright’s back driveway.
Allbright said it “felt like a new day” when he and his children watched the drones deliver packages. He said they fly drones recreationally together often, and imagined drones being used commercially.
“It felt like I was really at the beginning of the future, at the beginning of being able to see something that's going to have an impact [not only] on my life, but also [my kids] and their kids,” Allbright said. “Their kids are going to assume that we always had this.”
Wing Communications Manager Emmie Derback said Allbright recently visited one of the company’s pop-up events around the area and volunteered his home for test flights. Derback said that Wing is in “the last regulatory steps” before being able to offer the service.
“Right now, we're just doing these last testing, operational checks and all that, so we'll be coming in the next couple months,” Derback said. “We’re really excited.”
Drone delivery will “start small” in Frisco and Little Elm, but Derback said more cities could be serviced in the future.
“We’re really looking forward to starting small here in Frisco and scaling throughout the area and being able to serve more and more communities and more homes,” she said.
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