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Brooklyn resident Phyllis Brody grabs her pizza delivery from a drone.Paul Martinka
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CEO Charles Walters with delivery recipient Phyllis Brody.Paul Martinka
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The delivery guy better start looking for a new gig.

A Brooklyn pizzeria owner, hoping to send his business soaring, successfully made a test delivery by drone Thursday, dropping a pie into the hands of a customer in Prospect Heights.

“We are embracing new technology,” said Charles Walters, the CEO of Williamsburg Pizza. “Our prediction is that within the next five years, food will be flying 300 feet in the air.”

The test delivery flight — coming after a crash landing during an earlier effort — came after Walters launched the drone with an attached pie from the roof of his home.

“It’s just a fabulous way to get your lunch or dinner,” said test customer Phyllis Brody, 60.

“Getting delivery like this is something I never expected. It’s really a lot of fun.”

Walters predicted that pizza delivery by remote-control drones will become more commonplace as the Federal Aviation Administration clarifies its rules on employing the small craft.

“By 2018, I predict we’ll have a fleet of at least 25 drones to deliver pizza,” the ambitious entrepreneur said.

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