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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 28 August 2014 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Global |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drones; autonomous aerial vehicles; unmanned flying vehicles; quadcopter; drone |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| Outlet | BBC News |
| Title | Google tests drone deliveries in Project Wing trials |
| Dateline | 28 August 2014 — Jack Stewart, BBC World Service Radio, Los Angeles |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28964260 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2014-08-28|bbc|google-x-project-wing-queensland |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Jack Stewart reported Google X's previously secret two-year Project Wing: autonomous aerial vehicles tested by delivering packages to remote farms in Queensland, chosen for what Google called progressive drone rules. Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots) said even a few continuously shuttling craft could serve a large number of people in an emergency. Incoming lead Dave Voss (page spelling) described origins as defibrillator delivery faster than an ambulance. The prototype had about 1.5 m wingspan, about 10 kg total with package (aircraft 8.5 kg), four electric propellers, a blended-wing tail sitter that takes off vertically then transitions to horizontal flight, pre-programmed destination, then flies itself. Google would not be permitted to run the same tests in the U.S. Long-term uses cited: disaster-relief medicines or batteries and, eventually, shopping deliveries.

**Kinematic object.** Google X Project Wing about 1.5 m blended-wing tail-sitter (8.5 kg empty / about 10 kg with package).

**Coverage frame.** industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: BBC World Service staff report with named Google X principals and technical specifications from the reveal.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: 2017 burrito/medicine trials and later Wing branding.

## LRRK relevance

Sense-Move-Act / Lab. Autonomous dual-mode delivery UAS demonstrated outside U.S. airspace rules.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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