Enter the Drones: The FAA and UAVs in America
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0764350773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Well Written, Detailed, and Nimble This is a well-written and nimble little book. It seems to have the details that someone really involved in aviation would want, like people’s full names (nicknames too), quotes, organizations, dates, equipment specifications, and endnotes (an index and a glossary for all the acronyms is a suggestion for a future edition). Yet it is written with a tidy journalistic style so that a. "A Great Resource Filled with Interesting Facts" according to R. Laurenzo. Bill Carey has created a fantastic resource that will appeal to the widest possible audience, from novices to those already well versed in the ways of unmanned flying things. “Enter The Drones” surveys an enormous field and boils it down to the most salient events tracking the recent rise of unmanned flying systems over the last couple decades out of forward-thinking corners. This is a must read for pilots and students of This is a must read for pilots and students of aviation and those wanting to understand the many uses of Drones. UAV's are here to stay. They will grow in popularity as did the cell phone in the past ten years. The future is not only in the air, but on the ground in cars, and on the water. Bill Carey has captured the birth of UAVs in the sky. He has done the research and documentation o
The general media and apparently most non-aviationpeople prefer "drones." And the publisher preferred the use of "drones"in the book's title. "We are part of a new era in aviation, and the potentialfor unmanned aircraft will make it safer and easier to do certain jobs,gather information and deploy disaster relief," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in a press release about the new rules.There is nowhere you can find the curious and circuitous back-storyto this historic announcement, except in a new non-fiction book justreleased this July: Enter the Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, written by AIN senior editor Bill Carey and published by Schiffer Books of Atglen, Pa.Carey's first recollection of the subject that became the topic ofhis book goes back to 2007, when h
Present since soon after the dawn of manned aviation, they have become controversial only in recent times. UAVsunmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted aircraft; the labels varyare a disruptive technology on par with computers and smartphones. Enter the Drones cuts through the hyperbole over UAVs to explain the considerable challenges the FAA faces.. 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. But a promising new industry beckonsUAVs can be useful for farming, filmmaking, law enforcement and sundry other missions. 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. Caught in the middle is the staid, bureaucratic Federal Aviation Administration, whose sacred mission is to protect the safety of America's skies