The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that a costly terrain warning system lawmakers wanted to mandate in response to Bryant's death would have been a non-factor in the accident that killed him.
At the end of August, the FAA finally gave Amazon approval for its Prime Air drone delivery fleet.
America has been lagging behind other countries.
The Drone Integration and Zoning Act seeks to expand private property rights and give localities more say in airspace regulation.
"The safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern," Trump said.
Farming out airport security and air traffic control would help to immunize air travel from the Congressional budget chaos.
Congress gives a nod to new technologies in renewing the aviation safety agency's legal authority, while punting on real reforms.
The agency decided that airline seat sizes don't have a discernible effect on passenger safety.
The FAA banned flight-sharing apps, but Sen. Mike Lee has introduced a bill to overturn that decision.
The Department of Transportation will experiment with expanding what commercial uses are allowed.
Regulators, for once, are pushing back.
Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators stopped it.
The Senate apparently wants to leave the current out-dated, needlessly expensive FAA system in place.
Dozens of countries have modernized successfully.
And believe it or not, his proposal isn't half bad.
Hobbyists freed from shackles of new FAA regulations.
Great accomplishment in the history of human flight, or the greatest accomplishment in the history of human flight?
We'll have to keep dreaming about the day the Tacocopter will forever change the way humans fulfill their cravings for Mexican food.
Is more oversight truly needed, or just more risk awareness?
If not for Federal Aviation Administration meddling in supersonic flight innovation, we could zip around the world in a fraction of the time.
Betting on Starship Technologies' ground game against Amazon.com's aerial enterprise.
Agency demands you retroactively report any device weighing more than half a pound.
A series of poor proposals from the Federal Aviation Administration threatens to ground much of the commercial drone industry before it even takes flight.
