{"id":3490,"date":"2014-12-22T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T01:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2014-12-22T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T01:38:53","slug":"uas-fund-files-faa-petition-for-rulemaking-on-micro-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2014\/12\/22\/uas-fund-files-faa-petition-for-rulemaking-on-micro-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"UAS Fund Files FAA Petition for Rulemaking on \u201cMicro\u201d Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright zemanta-img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:C-130_and_Hawk_in_nosecone_outside.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"A hawk stuck in the nosecone of a C-130\" src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2e\/C-130_and_Hawk_in_nosecone_outside.jpg\/350px-C-130_and_Hawk_in_nosecone_outside.jpg\" alt=\"A hawk stuck in the nosecone of a C-130\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hawk stuck in the nosecone of a C-130 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dronelife.com\/2014\/12\/22\/uas-america-fund-files-faa-petition-rulemaking-micro-drones\/\">UAS America Fund Files FAA Petition for Rulemaking on \u201cMicro\u201d Drones &#8211; DRONELIFE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main points &#8211; they hired expert from Exponent Engineering (formerly Failure \u00a0Analysis Associates) who evaluated bird strike &#8211; aircraft data and finds small r\/c aircraft are a minimal threat to aircraft based on the FAA&#8217;s own data. (The US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson River <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/news\/events\/Pages\/Loss_of_Thrust_in_Both_Engines_After_Encountering_a_Flock_of_Birds_and_Subsequent_Ditching_on_the_Hudson_River_US_Airways.aspx\">ingested a flock of birds<\/a>, not a single bird.)<\/p>\n<p>I jog past an airport that is routinely crossed by huge flocks of Canada geese and other large water fowl. 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Main points &#8211; they hired expert from Exponent Engineering (formerly Failure \u00a0Analysis Associates) who evaluated bird strike &#8211; aircraft data and finds small r\/c aircraft are a minimal threat to aircraft based on the FAA&#8217;s own data. (The US Airways flight that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2014\/12\/22\/uas-fund-files-faa-petition-for-rulemaking-on-micro-drones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UAS Fund Files FAA Petition for Rulemaking on \u201cMicro\u201d Drones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}