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Airborne-Unmanned 08.21.18: Drones v Fires, Amazon UAV To NASM, UAVs Battle Pigs

Also: Kansas Leads?, FAA on Wildfire Flights, Loudoun Model UAS Program, Counter UAS Summit

Airbus Aerial has been using its analytic tools to help insurance companies and first responders come to grips with California’s raging Carr fire, still only 61 percent contained, in recent reports. Airbus Aerial fuses satellite data with its in-house analytical systems to let insurance companies monitor areas they insure, enabling them to settle claims rapidly — in some cases, before the homeowner even knows their house has burned down. One insurer logged into AA’s system on Friday and by Satur

Boeing 747 'Art Car' At Burning Man

Project Has Been Four Years In The Making

The fuselage of a Boeing 747 arrived on the site of Burning Man in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, and getting the huge mobile art car to the playa required shutting down Nevada State Highway 447 and temporarily cutting power to parts of Gerlach, NV to get the exhibit to the site.

Airborne-Unmanned 08.14.18: Wing Delivery, Pilot Unions, Drones Herd Birds

Also: Cyberhawk, Oceans Unmanned, VerdeGo Aero, Swift Engineering

A pioneering commercial BVLOS delivery by drone brought ice cream to a two-year-old in a demonstration conducted in Virginia by Alphabet's Wing. The delivery flight covered 1.4 miles, and arrived within eight minutes from the time the order was completed by the mom of the lucky toddler. It was conducted under new rules that allow some states and other government entities to experiment with BVLOS drone flights put in place last year. Among those in attendance at the demonstration was Earl Lawrence, director of the FAA's UAS Integration Off

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.21.18)

"This will be our seventh consecutive year hosting this life-changing competition, and it will be our biggest one yet with our expansion of the school registration cap to 150 slots.” Source: GAMA president and CEO Pete Bunce, announcing the 2019 Aviation Design Challenge.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.21.18): En Route Facilities Ring

Depicted in the plan view of IAP charts, a circle which designates NAVAIDs, fixes, and intersections that are part of the en route low altitude airway structure.