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Are you concerned about the sky gradually becoming filled with windowless aircraft controlled by someone miles (maybe even states) away? You’re not alone. But it may be that the real “threat” turns out to be less about midair collisions and more about increasingly complicated and restricted airspace rules to accommodate remotely piloted aircraft operations. They […]

The upcoming integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the National Airspace System within the next few years has local, county, state and federal agencies pining for drones, this according to a story in the Christian Science Monitor. The story points to the public’s conflicted view of drone operations — they like them for hunting […]

Aviation member organizations are celebrating a historic victory with Congressional passage of an FAA reauthorization bill yesterday that includes no user fees. While celebration is certainly in order, a major, troubling part of the bill has escaped largely unnoticed: the mandated opening of U.S. airspace to drone aircraft — aka, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in […]

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in Washington after that super-secret American spy drone fell into Iranian hands last week. Tehran claims it shot down the UAV, which analysts have identified as an RQ-170 Sentinel. The White House has asked for it back. The Iranian government has responded with the diplomatic equivalent of, “In your […]

If a job is dirty, dangerous or just plain dull, you get a robot to do it. And you can add one more ‘D’ to the list of considerations for expanding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — Dollars. There is great demand at the FAA to permit launching UAVs that would perform a […]

AAM poised to shape future of aviation over the next decade.

Ambitious commitments by DoorDash and now Uber could reshape low-altitude airspace.

China’s DJI holds an estimated 70-80% share of the global market for commercial UAS.

It becomes one of the nation’s first facilities to take concrete steps toward integration of new and novel aircraft.

45,000-square-foot site at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport will serve as Joby Aviation’s base for future Texas activities.