First came the Burrito Bomber back in the winter of 2012 – more a research experiment than a viable food delivery option – and people asked if ever a day would come when our beloved soft-shell, goodness-packed burritos would be falling into our laps from the sky on a regular basis.

Well, that day hasn’t come … for the majority of folks in the U.S. anyway. It has, however, if you’re a student at Virginia Tech. Is it a bird, is it a plane, is even a HokieBird? students might ask, only to find that the apparition sailing through the blue sky is the Barbacoa Burrito sent to you, courtesy of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.

The Mexican fast food chain has recently partnered with Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. and its automated aircraft arm Project Wing. Burritos delivered to students from the sky is just the start of what’s expected to be a near future in which drones deliver much of our stuff.

Dave Vos, head of Google’s Project Wing, said in an interview with Bloomberg, “It’s the first time that we’re actually out there delivering stuff to people who want that stuff.” Stuff falling from the sky is what companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. want very badly, and drones such as the new burrito droppers described as, “Self-guided hybrids that can fly like a plane or hover like a helicopter,” are in their sights.

The drones have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration with the stipulation humans are on standby in case it starts to look like someone may end up with a face full of sour cream. According to the Bloomberg story the drones will find their target, hover above it, and lower down the burrito using a winch.

Virginia Tech was specifically chosen for this landmark endeavor due to the university vying to become the vanguard of transportation technology. School President Timothy Sands expressed that dropping fast food from the sky was no easy fete, saying, “It sounds simple, but it’s not. There are a lot of things to work out from a safety point of view and a policy point of view.”

The project has been hailed as history in the making, and while that’s probably true it’s also likely that the words human ingenuity and burrito will ever be said in the same sentence again.

Photo from Chipotle