Senator wants airspace expanded for unmanned aircraft flying

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Officials in North Dakota, a state with open spaces and a U.S. Air Force base at Grand Forks, are lobbying for increased airspace in which to test and fly unmanned aircraft with various electronic sensing devices. It is also a prime goal of the Dayton region, which wants to support unmanned aircraft development at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Springfield Air National Guard base.

The FAA has begun studying the issue. The agency says, however, that it must be assured that the remotely piloted aircraft will have reliable electronic systems aboard to automatically detect and avoid other planes before allowing them into airspace used by manned aircraft.