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Re:Feds give Google OK to test Project Wing drone deliveries by apendleton on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:14PM (#12219609)
This is pretty sloppy reporting. The single-wing tail-sitter drone design depicted in both the picture and video accompanying this article and discussed in the text had been abandoned as of last year: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/17/google-working-on-new...

They do still have a program for drone delivery, but we know nothing about the drones involved except that these aren't them.

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Re:Feds give Google OK to test Project Wing drone deliveries by wrsh07 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:45PM (#12220402)
It looks like they show different prototype designs on their webpage: http://www.solveforx.com/wing/our-approach/

[including the old design. But in the image, they show something with helicopter-style rotors]

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