Advertisement Amazon's drone delivery project has been grounded after the company cut back the project team in Britain. More than 100 employees from Amazon's Prime Air division have lost their jobs or been reassigned, many of whom were based at the Cambridge test site, amid claims that the operation had descended into 'organised chaos'. Sources from within the UK-based operation told Wired that the project 'was never going to get off the ground', five years after it was launched in 2016 as a way to provide customers with their orders within half an hour. The California-based technology giant quietly began testing drones in a field near Cambridge that year after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) lifted strict drone flying restrictions.