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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.
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