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Airborne-Unmanned 09.25.18: FAA ReAuth Update, Camcopter at Red Bull, Global UAV

Also: Fortress UAV, Drones To Track Alzheimer's Patients, Redkite-I Wide-Area Sensor, Rolls-Royce Powering MQ-25

Practically down to the wire, new language was introduced in the wee hours of the weekend in an attempt to an FAA Reauthorization passed and on the books before the September 30th deadline. AUVSI is currently examining the 1205 page document which addresses a number of unmanned air vehicle operational and legal issues. In initial reactions, the Airline Pilot’s Association is voicing approval about additional restrictions on hobby drone activity, while AMA is asking that the bill be defe

Valor Studios, D-Day Squadron Working To Put Historic Warbirds Over Normandy

Hopes To Take A Full Squadron Of C-47s To The 75th Anniversary Commemoration

The D-Day Squadron has announced the addition of further corporate support to its efforts to return a full squadron of WW2 C-47s (known as the "Gooney Bird" or "Dakota") to Normandy, France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Airborne-Unmanned 09.18.18: Airware Grounded, AUVSI Urges Congress, LMC And DRL

Also: DroneInsurance.com And AirMap, EagleView And PrecisionHawk, Laser-Carrying Drones, Army Drones

Claiming to offer, “... a cloud-based platform to manage, process, view, analyze and collaborate around data for insurance, property management, mining, quarrying, and construction,” Airware has elected to shut down operations after spending some 118 million in investment capital. Airware was founded in 2011 in Newport Beach, California, by Jonathan Downey and relocated to San Francisco in January 2014, and purchased Redbird, a drone analytics software company, in 2016. Company staffers were

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.25.18)

"The long-term reauthorization is essential for the FAA to advance projects and implement programs that advance our country's status as the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world." Source: Airlines for America (A4A) president & CEO Nicholas E. Calio, on the introduction of a bipartisan FAA reauthorization bill in the U.S. House and Senate.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.25.18): Air Data Computer (ADC)

An aircraft computer that receives and processes pitot pressure, static pressure, and temperature to calculate very precise altitude, indicated airspeed, true airspeed, and air temperature.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.25.18)

From the ACLU blog, an in-depth look at the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which would grant the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice — in consultation with the FAA — the authority to prohibit any drone from accessing areas that they deem to be “covered asset[s] or facilit[ies].”