{"id":160654,"date":"2013-07-29T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=160654"},"modified":"2013-07-29T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:53:04","slug":"authorities-ground-shanghai-cake-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/authorities-ground-shanghai-cake-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Ground Shanghai Cake Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

A senior anti-narcotics official revealed in February that Beijing had rejected the use of a drone strike to assassinate drug lord Naw Kham<\/a>, who was later captured and executed<\/a> by more conventional means. Last week, Chinese civil aviation authorities also rejected a Shanghai bakery’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver cakes<\/strong><\/a>. From Shanghai Daily (via Malcolm Moore at The Telegraph<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\n

The factory used remote-controlled aircraft on five different occasions to “fly” cakes across the Huangpu River to customers in downtown, claimed Men Ruifeng, the marketing manager of the Incake company, which only accepts orders online.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] “What if the cake or even the drone fell on a passer-by from the 100 meters,” a netizen asked. <\/p>\n

[\u2026] Unmanned aircraft have to be approved by the civil aviation authority before being used for business, said an official with the civil aviation’s East China Regional Administration.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the company also has to apply to the administration and report its flying details, especially those over the downtown areas, the official pointed out. He said the authorities plan to come up with a new unmanned aircraft management regulation to manage drones that may become a common sight in the future. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shanghaiist posted promotional video of the cakecopter in action:<\/p>\n