How To Become A First-Person-View Aircraft Pilot

Raphael Pirker turned his hobby of flying first-person-view (FPV) aircraft into a career. We asked how he did it so that you might too—if and when the U.S. government ever lightens up. How’d you get started? My uncle got me into model planes as a kid in Switzerland, so I had some models lying aro...

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Meet ARES: DARPA's newest transformer-style drones under development

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Meet ARES: DARPA’s newest transformer-style drones under development
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DAPRA, presented concept images of its scheme to pair up the US military with modular drones named Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES for short), capable of transforming to comply with […]

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Journalism use of drones may get prohibited as well as commercial

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Journalism use of drones may get prohibited as well as commercial
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing new rules of using drones and is launching several investigations on the drones following the recent accident in Connecticut. Now journalists and government officials seem to be at crossroads as the so-called […]

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Learjet 85 moves a step closer to first flight

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Learjet 85 moves a step closer to first flight
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Bombardier has moved closer to a long-delayed first flight of the all-composite Learjet 85 business jet, obtaining a flight test permit from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first flight test vehicle.

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Tranche 2 Typhoons pass Red Flag test

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Tranche 2 Typhoons pass Red Flag test
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The UK Royal Air Force has debuted its latest standard of the Eurofighter Typhoon at a Red Flag-series exercise at Nellis AFB, Nevada.

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