Tag: Federal Aviation Administration

In this photo taken on April 8, 2014, Tim Miller, left, Texas EquuSearch founder, and volunteer Gene Robinson, who builds the group's drones, checks out the wiring of a drone they have used for searches in Santa Fe, Texas. The group relies mostly on horseback and all-terrain vehicles to search rough terrain. But it also employs 4-pound aerial drones to survey the ground with digital cameras. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)ÃÂ

Harmless drones get federal flak

Steve Chapman · April 13, 2014 4:00 am

FAA says Boeing 787’s design, manufacture safe

Joan Lowy · March 19, 2014 3:43 pm

FILE - This March 12, 2014 file photo shows a drone landing after flying over the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in East Harlem in New York. Brian Wilson, the owner, says he uses the aerial drone to document buildings, weddings and news events. The Federal Aviation Administration bars commercial use of drones no matter how seemingly benign. Officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft and final regulations could be years away. But tempting technology and an eager marketplace are outrunning the aviation agency's best intentions. Photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers, and others are hurrying to embrace the technology. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

US lags as commercial drones take off around globe

Associated Press · March 17, 2014 4:00 am

Judge dismisses FAA fine against small drone user

Joan Lowy · March 7, 2014 12:45 am

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. On nearly 150 flights, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File)

Pilots often head to wrong airports, reports show

Joan Lowy · February 10, 2014 11:16 pm

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 photo, long lines of passengers wait in Concourse D of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Linthicum, Md., after many flights were either delayed or canceled because of a lightning strike to the airport's air traffic control tower, leading controllers to stop all arrivals and departures at the airport for more than two hours. The lightning strike, which also injured an air traffic controller, is prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to examine hundreds of air traffic control towers nationwide, the agency told The Associated Press. Officials will be looking for problems with the systems that protect the towers from lightning strikes. (AP Photo/The Capital, Paul W. Gillespie)

FAA to examine airport towers

Jessica Gresko · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

NASA's Global Hawk pilotless aircraft sits in a hangar after arriving from a science mission monitoring tropical storm Gabrielle, during a survey of unmanned aircraft and related systems developed by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (AP/Reed Saxon)

National Security

Ohio, Indiana push for place in drone industry

Lisa Cornwell · January 13, 2014 5:00 am

This undated image provided by Amazon.com shows the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project that Amazon is working on in its research and development labs. Drones have been mainly used by the military, but governments, businesses, farmers and others are making plans to join the market. (AP Photo/Amazon)

National Security

Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Data flaws hinder the Department of Transportation's ability to understand and fix flight delays and cancellations, the agency's inspector general found. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Transportation Department data collection troubles may hinder easier flying

Kelly Cohen · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

Airlines for America's winter travel forecast projected that 44.3 million customers would fly on U.S. airlines during the 21-day period from Dec. 16 through Jan. 5. (Photo: Thinkstock)

America’s airlines are improving service, investing heavily for the future

Sean Kennedy · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

As more people have taken to air travel, the practice of "capacity discipline," or "right-gauging," has resulted in airlines scheduling fewer flights, and those flights that are on the schedule are typically packed to the gills. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Not-so-friendly skies: Airline industry faces immense problems, but there are solutions

Neil McCabe · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

Whenever airline companies, such as Delta and Northwest, attempt a merger or acquisition lawyers from the Department of Justice's Antitrust Department jump onto the process, often blocking, delaying and perverting the deal, Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson said.

Not-so-friendly skies: Deregulation didn’t fail, it was never really tried

Neil McCabe · December 12, 2013 5:00 am