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After our recent coverage of drones, a recent article caught our eye: the FAA has banned a Wisconsin brewery from using quadcopters to deliver beer to bored-and-thirsty anglers out in ice fishing shacks. Too bad…who wouldn’t like a nice frosty one delivered to a nearby peak while skiing or directly to your tube during a hot summer day on the Deschutes?

This article appears in Feb 6-12, 2014.

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FAA bans beer-delivery drones

by Jessica Fuller, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 11, 2014

<h1>FAA bans beer-delivery drones</h1> <p class="byline">by Jessica Fuller, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 11, 2014</p> <p>After our recent coverage of <a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/is-drone-a-dirty-wordx-marks-the-spot/Content?oid=2311768" target="_blank">drones</a>, a recent article caught our eye: the FAA has banned a Wisconsin brewery from using quadcopters to deliver beer to bored-and-thirsty anglers out in ice fishing shacks. Too bad...who wouldn't like a nice frosty one delivered to a nearby peak while skiing or directly to your tube during a hot summer day on the Deschutes?</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/faa-bans-beer-delivery-drones-2313683/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=26152&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/faa-bans-beer-delivery-drones-2313683/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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