"When Part 107 came out in 2016, I had my pilot’s license and a professor suggested that I lead flight operations at a UAS research lab. It turned out to be super fun and now seeing the industry move and to have Zipline delivering hundreds of thousands of deliveries is incredible. Looking back on when I first got to Zipline in North Carolina, it was exciting and intimidating to do something relatively new. It has been rewarding to be part of the team that is working with the regulators to help push Zipline’s mission forward within the U.S. I get to have the opportunity to train our new U.S. flight operations crew members and pass along our high operational standards to them. Recently, all Zipline crew members completed individual checkrides with the FAA to assess our operation and training program - and we’ve been cleared to become operators, instructors and evaluators of our system in this airspace. It’s been incredible to be a part of this much progress. Our team takes what Zipli...