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Agreement on Best Practices for Drone Use | UAV Expert News

Agreement on Best Practices for Drone Use | UAV Expert News | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Agreement on Best Practices for Drone Use MULTI-STAKEHOLDER GROUP FINALIZES AGREEMENT ON  BEST PRACTICES FOR DRONE USE Washington, DC – Today, a wide range of privacy groups and industry stakeholders participating in the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) Multi-Stakeholder process concerning privacy, transparency, and accountability issues regarding commercial and private use of unmanned aircraft …
PIRatE Lab's insight:
These are all common sense steps that many of us already follow, but it is good to have a clear document we can point to with community support.
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The FAA Calls Amazon's Bluff on Taking Drone Delivery Overseas

The FAA Calls Amazon's Bluff on Taking Drone Delivery Overseas | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it
Earlier this week, Amazon threatened to take its drone delivery program overseas—the FAA says that won't happen.
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Hmmm."calls their bluff?"  This looks more like: pushing the to move all of their R&D to the UK.

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Making Aviation History – The First Quad-copter Drone to Cross the English Channel

Making Aviation History – The First Quad-copter Drone to Cross the English Channel | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it

A UK Team of drone experts have successfully completed their bid to be the first people in history to fly a drone across the English Channel – a single flight of 35km.  This is also the longest single flight of a quad-copter in the World!

PIRatE Lab's insight:

A great symbolic step forward, although they never actually said how long it took for this sucker to do the transit!!!

 

Also, a great example of why we all need to be skilled pilots: when your auto pilot cuts out at 23k into a channel crossing.

PIRatE Lab's curator insight, February 22, 2016 9:43 AM

A great symbolic step forward, although they never actually said how long it took for this sucker to do the transit!!!

 

Also, a great example of why we all need to be skilled pilots: when your auto pilot cuts out at 23k into a channel crossing.