Setback
Kirkwood's City Council let a draft special use permit for Wing drone deliveries, which capped deliveries at 2.5 pounds, die without a motion, DroneXL reported.
A delay, pause or setback
What the source says
“Kirkwood’s draft special use permit capped deliveries at 2.5 pounds before the City Council let it die without a motion on October 15”
What it means
Wing, from Wing (Alphabet), is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. A setback stays on the record next to the milestones; the stage moves down only when the rules say so.
Human help: People working remotely can steer it or take over.
More on Wing
- Wing said it had completed more than one million US drone deliveries so far this year.
- Wing said it planned to open about seven Walmart drone delivery hubs across the St. Louis area at once, rather than testing one store first, reaching tens of thousands of households.
- Wing said it had launched Walmart drone delivery as one Charlotte-area service from seven Supercenters, some of which had been flying since December 2025, with two more stores due within a week.
- Wing named Denver and Seattle as Walmart drone delivery cities for 2027, bringing the plan to 19 metro areas. Fourteen of them were not yet flying.
- Wing said it had made more than one million paid deliveries worldwide. It did not say how many were in the US.
- Wing began Walmart drone deliveries in Greater Orlando from two Supercenters, in Apopka and Clermont, its first Florida market.