Last week, Amazon's VP of global public policy testified before the Senate Commerce Committee[0] about the FAA's delays in approving testing in the US that they've already begun in other countries. An FAA administrator testified in the same hearing. This comes more than a year after Amazon's initial announcement on December 1, 2013.[1]

This is the same VP, by the way, that testified before the same committee in January on net neutrality.[2]

Are you suggesting he's lying to Congress?

Last year, Amazon hired for their Prime Air team, among other high-profile individuals, a former NASA astronaut, a Keyhole co-founder, and a mess of aerospace vets and MIT grads.[3]

Argue all you want about its viability, but this is not "a press release" or "april fool's joke".

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/amazon-con...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-d...

[2] http://recode.net/2015/01/21/congress-still-bickering-over-n...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/despite-faa-setbacks-amazon...

I'm very very skeptical but, by all indications, Amazon does appear to be quite serious about it however much it initially looked like a PR stunt.

Ah, they hired Paul Viola. He's a major talent.