Airport Scrutiny to Get Worse as House Moves to Mandate Sex-Trafficking Training
FAA reauthorization bill would require airline ticket-counter and gate agents to be trained on reporting "potential human trafficking victims."
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How the FAA Killed Uber for Planes
Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators stopped it.
Drone Registry Repeal a Victory for Permissionless Innovation
Hobbyists freed from shackles of new FAA regulations.
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Here Comes Supersonic Flight: The Rebirth of a Former White Elephant
Boom Technology wants to take you from New York to London in three hours.
Domino's Will Soon Deliver Your Pizza by Drone—if You Live In New Zealand
While regulations hold companies back in the United States, other countries are serving as laboratories for drone innovation and research.
Extremely Rare Deadly Balloon Tragedy Leads to Familiar Calls for More Regulation
Is more oversight truly needed, or just more risk awareness?
[UPDATED] If You Registered Your Drone with the FAA, Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Whoops! The mandatory unmanned aerial vehicle database is public and searchable.
No, Of Course People Aren't Registering Their Drones with the FAA
Only about a quarter of those sold over the holidays have been documented.
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.
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.
Task Force Will Hammer Out Who Will Have to Report Their Drones to the Government
Can we start with the CIA?
Feds to Try to Make People Register Drones
Details on how it will actually work still pending.
NASA to Begin Testing Air-Traffic-Control System for Drones
Google, Amazon, and the University of Nevada, Reno are all involved.
Amazon Gets Permission to Fiddle with Delivery Drones, Very, Very Carefully
FAA allows them to fly during the day, with pilot and observer always watching.
Study: Airport Screenings Catch Less Than Half of Infected Passengers
Transportation officials are at the whim of self-reported data.
Who Will Be Screwed Over by the FAA's New Drone Rules?
The precautionary principle strikes again.
Lunar Licensing: Promoting and Protecting Private Business on the Moon
Why not instead an interplanetary Homestead Act and Mining Law?
FAA to Idiots: Don't Fly Your Drone at the Super Bowl
A taxpayer-funded PSA helpfully reminds people not to be stupid.
FAA Bans Low-Flying Aircraft Over Ferguson, Missouri
Such as, media helicopters who might be filming police and citizen activity on the streets
Drone Pilot Fights FAA Oversight
Challenges whether agency has authority over unmanned craft use
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FAA Fine, Helium Costs, Ground Lawn Chair Balloonist
Bureaucratic killjoys
FAA Poised To Ease Mobile Device Restrictions
No more hiding your Kindle from the flight attendant