Octocopters and Amazon: A Little Too Jetson?

Do you love looking up toward the sky? For the most part, it isn't incumbered yet, save comtrails, military equipment, commercial airlines and UFOs.   But can you imagine looking to the dome and seeing commercial optocopters delivering products?  If Amazon has its way, it will. They say they are five years
 away from making this operational.
Remember the tv show, The Jetson's? 


Well, this is a bit too Jetsonian for me.  If you don't know who they are take a listen below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPQEz6In6o

 Amazon.com Inc. is testing drones to deliver goods as the world’s largest e-commerce company works to improve efficiency and speed in getting products to consumers.

 

The Amazon.com Inc. Prime Air octocopter is seen in this undated handout photograph released to the media on Dec. 2, 2013. Source: Amazon.com Inc. via Bloomberg

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) –- Amazon's business runs on speed, price and customer service. We go inside Amazon's Phoenix 6 fulfillment center to see the technology it takes to keep those little brown boxes moving, from the moment they arrive on a truck to the moment they get packed into a box and shipped out. (Source: Bloomberg)

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos unveiled the plan on CBS’s “60 Minutes” news program in the U.S., showing interviewer Charlie Rose the flying machines that can serve as delivery vehicles. Bezos said the gadgets, called octocopters, can carry as much as 5 pounds within a 10-mile radius of an Amazon fulfillment center. Amazon may start using the drones, which can make a delivery within 30 minutes, within five years pending Federal Aviation Administration approval, Bezos said.

For more info:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/amazon-testing-octocopters-for-delivery-ceo-tells-60-minutes-.html

Personally, I think optocopters have some wonderful applications.  But one has to be ethical about their use.  I do worry about our government.  Spying.  And then the individual who is just plain noisy. Spying. 

Here is a super use of an optocopter. One of these photographed my home recently:

Should Amazon be allowed to fly the friendly skies? What do you think?