As Amazon makes its first drone delivery in Britain, James Moore says he’d love to have parcels landing gently by his front door, rather than merely chucked over the fence… R emember that old Superman tagline? “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s….” Well, wait. That thing hovering overhead could now also be an Amazon drone , en route to number 32 with an order of a packet of sterilising tablets. Retail delivery by drone has been big in the US for a while now. But the idea has finally arrived