Enter the Drones

The FAA and UAVs in America

Bill Carey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2016
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-5077-1 (ISBN)

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UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted aircraft; the labels vary—are a disruptive technology on par with computers and smartphones. Present since soon after the dawn of manned aviation, they have become controversial only in recent times. In the United States, the mainstream media has painted them with a broad brush as "drones" with a warlike past, and civil liberties organizations warn of their impact on individual privacy rights. But a promising new industry beckons—UAVs can be useful for farming, filmmaking, law enforcement and sundry other missions. Entrepreneurs and aerospace manufacturers alike want them freed to fly for commercial purposes, and the US Congress has answered with a mandate to make that happen. Caught in the middle is the staid, bureaucratic Federal Aviation Administration, whose sacred mission is to protect the safety of America's skies. Enter the Drones cuts through the hyperbole over UAVs to explain the considerable challenges the FAA faces.

Bill Carey has three decades of experience as a newspaper reporter and aviation writer. He has written extensively about unmanned aerial vehicles, initially as editor-in-chief of Avionics magazine, and more recently as senior editor with Aviation International News.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	61 color and b/w photos
Verlagsort	Atglen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	816 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-7643-5077-3 / 0764350773
ISBN-13	978-0-7643-5077-1 / 9780764350771
Zustand	Neuware