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Earlier this year, the American Society of Civil Engineers graded America's infrastructure a D-plus. Our roads are riddled with potholes, our trains and buses are overcrowded, and many of our ports are not deep enough to accept larger cargo ships.
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Drones are buzzing around the sky delivering products to customers, snapping videos and photos and conducting search and rescue missions, making it necessary for all of these high-flying machines to be regulated with their own air traffic system set to launch by 2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration and corporations to research requirements necessary for a drone traffic management system, and whatever they learn will be tested this summer, according to the Los Angeles Times .
I've always loved technology and recently became one of the growing number of Americans to buy a drone. Like many drone operators, I marvel at the current commercial and recreational applications as well as the potential for the future.
Owner Dan Wolfe in front of his hangar at Wolfe Air, which specializes in aerial cinematography and expanded its base at Hawthorne Municipal Airport to include a fuel-farm. But he is engaged in a dispute with the airport service operator, Hawthorne Airport LLC, over the rights tosell the jet fuel.
As a news photographer, it pays to be early. That's why I got up at 5 a.m. to photograph the "mass casualty" exercise at the Colorado Springs Airport on Wednesday, May 3. The Federal Aviation Administration requires such an event to be conducted every three years.
Delta is the latest airline to face fallout from an on-plane dispute, after a family that was forced off of an overnight flight from Maui to California posted video that saw the crew say agents would put the parents in jail and place their children in foster care. The airline is offering compensation and an apology to Brian Schear and his family after Schear posted an 8-minute video on YouTube Wednesday.
Delta Air Lines is offering refunds and compensation to a California family that says they were forced off a plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give up one of their seats on a crowded flight. A video of the April 23 incident was uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday and added to the list of recent encounters on airlines that have gone viral, including the dragging of a bloodied passenger off a United Express plane.
A Southern California father said he and his family were booted from a Delta flight after they declined to give up a seat they had bought for their teenage son and were attempting to use for his 2-year-old sibling. Brian and Brittany Schear, of Huntington Beach, were on a red-eye flight April 23 from Maui to Los Angeles when they got into an argument with officials after being told that they had to give the seat to another passenger.
A Nevada firm has become the first company in the nation approved to fly drones over the Las Vegas Strip. Aerospace company AviSight will be able to fly above the resort corridor including the strip.
Before President Trump was elected, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai came on my TV show, upset because President Obama ordered his agency to regulate the internet. For the first time, "decisions about how the internet works are going to be made by bureaucrats and politicians instead of engineers and innovators," he complained.
A single-engine Piper PA32 crashed on Harbour Pointe Boulevard Southwest and Mukilteo Speedway about 3:30 p.m. immediately after taking off the runway at Paine Field, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Tom Little, an Aviation Accident Investigator with NTSB, said, "maybe 500-1,000 feet off the ground, they experienced an engine anomaly."
A plane operating under the regional branch of American Airlines has made an emergency landing at DuPage Airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit. FAA officials say the flight departed Chicago O'Hare International Airport at 9 a.m. bound for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and landed 15 minutes later "without incident" about 25 miles west at DuPage Airport in West Chicago.
A plan to put a new cell tower in Smithfield Township faces opposition from flyers of a nearby airfield. Verizon Wireless wants to build near the Stroudsburg-Pocono Airport, but a number of pilots who frequent that airspace say it would put helicopters, planes and parachutists at risk.
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Today, Kitty Hawk debuted its first all-electric aircraft with a video that's part cringe-worthy commercial and part test flight footage. While it isn't the fanciest rendition of an aircraft, the vehicle can be flown without a pilot's license, making it accessible to those that have the means to purchase it.
A 21-year-old survivor of a small plane that crashed in Connecticut Monday was dragged away from the fiery scene by a Good Samaritan, according to a witness. Meriden resident Dan Mercurio was on the scene in Wallingford when he saw several Good Samaritans run toward the wreckage, ABC New Haven affiliate WTNH reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration wants to track aircraft more accurately by creating a series of new satellite-based routes for arrivals and departures at McCarran International, Henderson Executive and North Las Vegas airports, along with Nellis Air Force Base.
DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC A pilot was killed after a helicopter crashed in a Darlington County field Friday evening, according to Kathleen Bergen with the Federal Aviation Administration. Bergen said via email the 47G helicopter struck some trees before crashing in the field around 5 p.m. She added the pilot was the only one onboard.