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An Investigation of Lighting Schemes to Improve sUAS Conspicuity
Increasing the visual detection and recognition range of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and small UAS (sUAS) is vital for the safety of the National Airspace System (NAS). The last line of defense for collision avoidance is visual see-and-avoid, particularly, if/when automated Detect and Avoid...Annotated Bibliography (1997 – 2021) Crew and Staffing Requirements of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Air Carrier Operations
There is an increasing demand to utilize unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for an array of new applications currently outside the scope of written regulation, including taxi services, package delivery, crop dusting, and more. Current Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 107 is...
Request for Information on Current Type Certificate (TC) Holders Prior to Declaring TC Abandoned
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2012, Section 44704(a)(5), §302 allows the FAA to make TC "engineering data" available upon request to persons for certificates that the FAA determines are abandoned. The Act allows for the release of FAA engineering data files of TCs that the FAA finds to be abandoned through a process of due diligence.