Passengers Warned of Toxic Fumes Onboard Airplanes August 9, 2017 By Justin Bachman The smell of jet fuel is fairly common in the passenger cabin when your plane is preparing to taxi. Far...
Police Push Tracking as Rogue Drones Hover Over Fire Scenes August 8, 2017 By Alan Levin At a recent apartment blaze in Oakland, California, a sheriff deputy directing firefighters with a drone-mounted video camera encountered a...
Confusing Drone Rules Cause Headaches for Businessowners July 26, 2017 By NICK MUSCAVAGE and ANDREW J. GOUDSWARD, Courier News and Home Tribune When Jim Komsa launched his aerial photography business in 2013, using airplanes to shoot photos from the sky, he said...
No Real Rule on How Hot is too Hot on a Plane July 21, 2017 Every day, tens of thousands of U.S. airline passengers settle into their seats, lower the window shades and reach up...
Recreational Drone Registry Upended by Federal Appeals Decision June 5, 2017 By MICHAEL LARIS, The Washington Post John Taylor didn’t like the idea of being forced by the Federal Aviation Administration to register his drones. The requirement...
Airlines Told to Remove Seats From Small Planes, Could Cause Neck Injuries May 26, 2017 Federal safety regulators are telling airlines to remove a certain type of seat from their planes, saying the seat could...
Police, Other Texas Agencies Embrace Drone Use May 15, 2017 By PHILIP JANKOWSKI, Austin American-Statesman Government use of aerial drones became much easier when the Federal Aviation Administration flipped the switch on new regulations last...
Texas Woman Injured in Oklahoma Skydiving Accident Awarded $760K April 20, 2017 A Texas woman has been awarded $760,000 after she was badly injured in a skydiving accident in Oklahoma. Makenzie Wethington...
Laptop Ban Spurs Fire Warning on Batteries in Jet Cargo Holds April 20, 2017 By Alan Levin The U.S. order prohibiting passengers from carrying laptop computers and other electronics into the cabins of some overseas flights is...
Drone Maker Says They Should Transmit ID Info While Airborne March 29, 2017 By JOAN LOWY The world’s largest manufacturer of civilian drones is proposing that the craft continually transmit identification information to help government security...