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Airlines

Aviation Groups Have Complained for Years About the Outdated FAA Alert System That Crashed Today

Critics say the NOTAM system creates safety hazards by overloading pilots with hard to read and superfluous information while failing to alert them to real hazards.

Christian Britschgi | 1.11.2023 4:30 PM

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Airlines

What the Southwest Meltdown Means for Airline Policy

Re-regulating the airline industry won’t help prevent massive service disruptions in the future.

Robert Poole | 12.30.2022 1:20 PM

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Space

NIMBY Laws Are Blocking Humanity's Future Among the Stars

The regulations that increase building costs on Earth will have the same effect in space.

Christian Britschgi | 11.15.2022 8:00 AM

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Space

From Space Regulator to Astronaut: Q&A With George Nield

He spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.15.2022 8:00 AM

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Surveillance

Government Eyes In the Sky

The federal government and police are finding new ways to use drones to invade privacy.

Jay Stanley | 10.12.2021 7:00 AM

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Regulation

Regulation Kills Innovation. So These Entrepreneurs Didn't Ask for Permission.

From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.

John Stossel | 7.14.2021 2:20 PM

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Transportation Policy

United Airlines Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Air Travel. Will the FAA Let It?

The company has agreed to purchase 15 supersonic airliners from Denver-based aerospace startup Boom.

Christian Britschgi | 6.4.2021 10:15 AM

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Sports

Safety Investigators Confirm the 'Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant Helicopter Safety Act' Wouldn't Have Prevented the Fatal Crash That Killed Lakers Legend

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.

Christian Britschgi | 2.10.2021 5:25 PM

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Technology

Still Waiting for Drone Deliveries

At the end of August, the FAA finally gave Amazon approval for its Prime Air drone delivery fleet.

Scott Shackford | 11.22.2020 6:00 AM

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Drones

Feds Finally Give Amazon Permission for Drone Deliveries in the U.S.

America has been lagging behind other countries.

Scott Shackford | 8.31.2020 2:25 PM

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Property Rights

Sen. Mike Lee Would Let You Decide if Drones Can Fly Less Than 200 Feet Above Your House

The Drone Integration and Zoning Act seeks to expand private property rights and give localities more say in airspace regulation.

Noah Shepardson | 10.17.2019 3:50 PM

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FAA

Trump Says FAA Will Ground Boeing Model That Crashed in Ethiopia

"The safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern," Trump said.

Joe Setyon | 3.13.2019 3:50 PM

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TSA

Shutdown-Induced Bottlenecks at Nation's Airports Shows Folly of Letting the Federal Government Run Things

Farming out airport security and air traffic control would help to immunize air travel from the Congressional budget chaos.

Christian Britschgi | 1.23.2019 9:00 AM

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FAA

New FAA Reauthorization Bill Tackles Seat Size, Supersonic Jets

Congress gives a nod to new technologies in renewing the aviation safety agency's legal authority, while punting on real reforms.

Christian Britschgi | 9.27.2018 10:00 AM

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FAA

FAA Decides Against Airline Seat Size Regulation

The agency decided that airline seat sizes don't have a discernible effect on passenger safety.

Nikhil Sridhar | 7.10.2018 2:25 PM

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FAA

Clear the Runway: The Fight Over 'Uber for Planes' Is Coming to Congress

The FAA banned flight-sharing apps, but Sen. Mike Lee has introduced a bill to overturn that decision.

Eric Boehm | 4.11.2018 3:05 PM

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Regulation

Why Is Silicon Valley's Cool New Self-Flying Taxi Taking Off in New Zealand Instead of California?

Declan McCullagh | 3.15.2018 11:40 AM

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Drones

Deploy the Taco Copters! Trump Administration Looks to Loosen Drone Regulations

The Department of Transportation will experiment with expanding what commercial uses are allowed.

Scott Shackford | 10.26.2017 12:15 PM

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FAA

Lawmakers Want Heavy-Handed Regulation of Lighter-Than-Air Balloons

Regulators, for once, are pushing back.

Christian Britschgi | 10.24.2017 8:00 AM

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Airlines

How the FAA Killed Uber for Planes

Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators stopped it.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 6.27.2017 8:30 AM

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Rural Senators and Private Jet Operators Threaten Air Traffic Control Reform

The Senate apparently wants to leave the current out-dated, needlessly expensive FAA system in place.

Christian Britschgi | 6.23.2017 2:30 PM

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FAA

Time to Get U.S. Air Traffic Control Out of the 1960s

Dozens of countries have modernized successfully.

Robert Poole | 6.6.2017 2:00 AM

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Trump Proposes Major Overhaul of Outdated U.S. Air Traffic Control System

And believe it or not, his proposal isn't half bad.

Christian Britschgi | 6.5.2017 5:40 PM

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Drones

Drone Registry Repeal a Victory for Permissionless Innovation

Hobbyists freed from shackles of new FAA regulations.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 5.24.2017 8:30 AM

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Drones

The Future is Now: Chipotle (With Help From Google) Will Deliver Burritos Via Drone

Great accomplishment in the history of human flight, or the greatest accomplishment in the history of human flight?

Eric Boehm | 9.14.2016 9:10 AM

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Drones

New FAA Drone Rules Kick In, But Drone-based Deliveries Still Grounded

We'll have to keep dreaming about the day the Tacocopter will forever change the way humans fulfill their cravings for Mexican food.

Eric Boehm | 8.29.2016 3:50 PM

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Safety

Extremely Rare Deadly Balloon Tragedy Leads to Familiar Calls for More Regulation

Is more oversight truly needed, or just more risk awareness?

Scott Shackford | 8.2.2016 5:00 PM

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FAA

How the FAA Killed Supersonic Flight—And How It Can Revive It

If not for Federal Aviation Administration meddling in supersonic flight innovation, we could zip around the world in a fraction of the time.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 7.26.2016 8:00 AM

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Drones

Ground Drones Will Beat Air Drones

Betting on Starship Technologies' ground game against Amazon.com's aerial enterprise.

Ronald Bailey | 2.24.2016 12:35 PM

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Drones

The FAA's New Drone Registration Rules Are Out, and They're Hilarious

Agency demands you retroactively report any device weighing more than half a pound.

Scott Shackford | 12.14.2015 3:00 PM

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Policy

A DMV for Drones? Inside the FAA's Clumsy Push to Regulate Flying Computers

A series of poor proposals from the Federal Aviation Administration threatens to ground much of the commercial drone industry before it even takes flight.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 11.10.2015 8:00 AM

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Google Wants Drones by 2017. Can FAA Act That Fast?

Paul Detrick | 11.8.2015 1:00 PM

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