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Flight cancellations have been seen at the Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport over the last month as County Executive Vince Horrigan expressed his disappointment in the recent service.
Although not as ubiquitous as other law enforcement technologies, drones will be a routine part of police officers' toolkits in the coming years. This poses a wide range of serious privacy worries, not least because police have not disguised their enthusiasm for invasive surveillance.
"Our commitment to adhere to AS9100, the strictest of quality standards for the aerospace industry, will further propel the growth of our machining services for ceramic matrix composites." - Tim Beatty, president of Bullen Ultrasonics Bullen Ultrasonics , a globally recognized pioneer and leader in ultrasonic machining, announced today its achievement of certification to the aerospace industry's AS9100 quality management standard.
Oona McGee, RocketNews24, 4 Dec 2016 According to reports, a mobile phone battery pack fire was the cause of the incident. A remarkable software detective story: The FAA is reportedly requiring airlines to reboot Dreamliners at an interval "not to exceed 21 days" to prevent disasters.
Quadcopters were one of last holiday season's hot-ticket items, and with even more affordable and feature-rich machines hitting the market over the last 12 months, this year looks set to be no different. Whether it's existing drone pilots upgrading their remotely controlled copters, or newbies taking to the skies for the first time, drone makers must be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of another lucrative Christmas.
After Quiet Skies Coalition leader Larry Cripe suggested that if Burien doesn't get involved, "there will be a fourth, a fifth and a sixth" runway at Sea-Tac International Airport, the City Council created an ad hoc committee to study plans of the Port of Seattle for the huge growth planned for the facility in coming years. The Monday night meeting also discussed the city's next biennial budget up for approved in the next couple of weeks along with the comprehensive city plan and the property tax the city will likely increase by a full 1 percent.
It hasn't taken long for drones to go from extreme novelty to almost ordinary: In the 10 months since the Federal Aviation Administration began requiring registration of all drones over half a pound in weight, the agency has racked up more registrations of these remote-controlled flying devices than it has registrations for all airplanes. One of the main reasons drones are so popular is photography and video.
An Elko, Nevada, couple says their 29-year-old daughter was killed in the crash of an air-ambulance flight while working as a flight nurse. Debbi and Jim Urresti say Tiffany Urresti started working two months ago for American Medflight and had worked as a hospital ER nurse before that.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a fiery crash in northern Nevada in which all four people aboard an air-ambulance flight were reported killed. The Elko Daily Free Press reports that three crew members and a patient on an American Medflight plane taking the patient to a Utah hospital were killed in the Friday evening crash in Elko.
The NTSB has issued a Safety Alert to pilots with suggestions on what they can do to reduce their chances of being involved in a midair collision. In an effort to illustrate the limitations of the "see and avoid" concept of aircraft separation, the NTSB created a series of animations depicting the pilots' visual field of view from each of the four airplanes involved in two midair collisions that were investigated by the NTSB in 2015.
The city of Hawthorne, California passed new regulations for the operation of UAVs in the city that are stricter than federal regulations imposed by the FAA. Once again, a municipality initiates regulations that may be in conflict with the FAA rules regarding the use of the national airspace system, and with the new FAR 105 section C and FAR 107 applying to non-recreational use of a small UAS.
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With Black Friday now just eight days away, a lot of people are putting together their holiday wish lists. One of the hottest gift ideas of the season is expected to "fly" off the shelves, literally.
November 15, 2016 - "Defense organizations throughout the world are adopting DO-254 for their avionics hardware. Why, and what are the implications? Details herein.
In this A.M.BestTV episode, new rules on drone operations and the widening range of drone-related tasks means that drone operators should consider new types of coverage and pursue discounts on some existing coverages. Click on http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v=drone1116 to view the entire program.
Recovery workers at Ground Zero search for one of the black boxes from Flight 11 or Flight 175 - the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 - in locations where a signal from the device has reportedly been picked up, but it is unclear if they find a black box. The two "black boxes" carried by all commercial aircraft - the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder - can provide valuable information about why a plane crashed.
The Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia, takes control of the three F-16 fighter jets launched from Langley Air Force Base September 11, 2001 ), even though, according to air traffic controllers at the facility, it should not be communicating with the fighters. The Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, known as "Giant Killer," is the Navy air traffic control agency that handles all over-water military operations.
The Federal Aviation Administration has established a no-fly zone, effective immediately, over midtown Manhattan, New York until Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. The FAA's order cites "VIP Movement" as the reason, and the zone is up to 2,999 feet above the ground and a 2-mile-wide radius around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Aurora recently partnered with OCEARCH, a marine conservation organization, to provide aerial support locating and tracking great white sharks off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Centaur optionally piloted DA-42 aircraft flew above the expedition area in a predetermined flight pattern to help scientists aboard the OCEARCH ship target, identify and track the location of the sharks in real time.