Recent content by JasmineJasmine

I'd rather send a chill through the unmanned aircraft research world, and create built-in mechanisms for law revision, than open the door to all use and see large corporations embrace the technologies without a strong framework for privacy protection. If we don't, we'll be reading blogs on ES in...

LOL... last week it was "within seven metres" of a commercial airliner, this week it's "five metres". And seriously -- not many drones have the ability to fly to 5,000 feet anyway so the credibility of this report is very low. Also, have you noticed that pilots used to occasionally report UFO...

Short-term funding a painful experience in aviation? Look around, see what Amtrak goes through every single year, with a Congress playing the same brinkmanship and threatening the same good middle class jobs. Perhaps Congress should have to choose between funding the Hudson River tunnels or the...

Well do we know for sure that he broke the law in this case? You can get legal exemption and permission from ATC to attempt such things. In the US (in my state even) the guys at flight test got a RC plane up to the upper atmosphere seeing black the black abyss with a weather balloon. It is...

There is the impact on America's broader aims. Just as Guantánamo was against America's interests though judged legal by some American courts, so targeted assassination may cause more problems than it solves. Although drones have decimated al-Qaeda, they have also helped to destabilise Pakistan...