Last Wednesday, July 9, Amazon officially submitted its petition to the FAA asking for an exemption from the agency’s blanket ‘no flying drones for commercial purposes’ pol... Read more
The Australian Certified UAV Operators Inc. (ACUO) reported this weekend that the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA, basically the Australian equivalent of the FAA) has now ce... Read more
On Thursday a the sUSB Expo in San Francisco, the FAA’s Jim Williams gave a presentation ‘updating’ the unmanned aerial systems community about the progress the federal adm... Read more
On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that the University of Alaska’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test site is now the second site (of six) to become operational. The f... Read more
This post is Part Two of Who Owns the Sky? and will address the major goals and timeline of the FAA’s Integration of Civil Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace Syst... Read more
On Monday morning, the FAA granted the North Dakota Department of Commerce team a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) to begin working with a Draganflyer X4ES at the Northern Plain... Read more
Who owns the space 100 feet above the roof of your house? You’re not going to build your house that high – even if zoning ordinances allowed it- and the Federal Aviation Administ... Read more