Pioneering Amazon Package-Delivery Drone to Be Part of Smithsonian Exhibit

An Amazon package-delivering drone prototype will be part of an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum set to open in 2021. The Thomas W. Haas We All Fly gallery will feature exhibits showing how various industries have innovated and deployed aircraft for different purposes, blogged the company. The hybrid drone was recently driven cross-country in a wooden shipping container from Seattle to Chantilly, Virginia, where it will be stored at the museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center until the exhibit opens, Amazon said. The drone gathered data during test flights that’s being used to develop next-generation devices, it said, and the goal of the Smithsonian exhibit is to inspire future generations of aerospace engineers and “remind museum visitors of Amazon’s commitment to advanced technology."