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December 25, 2014

Airborne 12.24.14: UAS America NPRM, YOUR Perfect Cub?, NYC Pol Wants To Ban UAV

Also: Lee Lauderback's UAT, OR Coast Guard Heli Station, CA A/C Parts Co Sued, Orion Is Home, 1.9M Young Eagles

The UAS America Fund, LLC has filed a formal Petition for Rulemaking with the FAA proposing a new “micro” unmanned aircraft rule. The proposed regulation would govern all commercial operations for unmanned aircraft systems that weigh three pounds or less, are operated below 400 feet, stay at least five miles from airports, and pilots must have a demonstrated level of aeronautical knowledge. EAA has announced that the 2015 EAA Aircraft Sweepstakes grand prize is a Piper J-3 Cub, meticulousl

"Roger, please be informed there is a Santa Claus." Source: Astronaut Jim Lovell, informing Mission Control that the Apollo 8 mission had successfully broken lunar orbit and was heading back to Earth on Christmas Day, 1968.

The distance from the center of a tropical cyclone to the location of the cyclone's maximum winds. In well-developed hurricanes, the radius of maximum winds is generally found at the inner edge of the eyewall.

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