Enter the Drones: The FAA and UAVs in America
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0764350773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. UAVsunmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted aircraft; the labels varyare a disruptive technology on par with computers
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 more general reader like me can follow the threads.The book is mainly interested in the history of regulatio. A Great Resource Filled with Interesting Facts 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 of the military into a dizzying array of commercial uses, beginning with the first FAA certification of a ci. "This is a must read for pilots and students of" according to Kyle. 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 on this new developing industry. As a pilot for over fifty years I could not put the book down.
And while Enter the Drones is not a history of the military use of unmanned aircraft, for which there are other books, Carey readily includes military UAV developments that relate to their commercial use.A side note: "Drone Etymology," the title of Chapter 2 of Enter the Drones, remains a surprisingly contentious topic. Obviously, drone etymology is a "to be continued" topic.The 11-chapter, 192-page Enter the Drones is illustratedwith 59 color photographs, many taken by the author, and includes 17pages of endnotes. following the passage of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. In the book's text, Carey primarily uses "UAVs," but also uses "drones" fairly often. I can also imagine Enter the Drones being used as a college textbook and as the basis for discussion topics at UAV and other conferences.My only quibble with the book is that it has neither an index nor aglossary, both of which I think readers would have found he