Museum with the pacific war fredericksbu fredericksburg, texas. Fredericksburg, texas. Within hours of the attack on pearl harbor, attacked philippines and guam and also set sites 2,000 miles west of hon honolulu known as wake island. A handful of soldiers and about a thousand civilian contractors looked like an easy target for the japanese. They were dead wrong. Outgunned, they battled back for 16 games against Imperial Japan. Tonight meet the heroes of the battle for wake island who took on japan. In late 1936 pan american air waves, mammoth luxurious boats began carrying their wealthy clientel across the passive to the orient and australia. Needing to refuel along the way one of their stops was an island called wake island. They did have the wake island hote ohn theou ahor of e baleor keisand. Eopl wou comout and enjoy great food at the hotel. Spend the rest of their day in their stop over Walking Around and realizing theres not a heck of a lot on this place. Thats putting it mildly
Would be subject to minimal regulatory requirements where as a larger aircraft over Populated Areas where require highly reliable avionics, additional training, and felt they mechanisms like a parachute. Even the types of risks models used to allow commercial operations in europe today including france and. I am please the faas stated its intention to f switch to this test model. The critical question is how quickly can it be implemented . Finally i would like to discuss the effect of delayed regulation on u. S. Businesses. France allows low risk commercial application that has canada, united kingdom, australia and many other countries. The United States typically a leader in aviation is one of only a few countries that prohibits commercial operations. Small and Large Businesses are moving casting and operations abroad. More regulations are more advanced. Delayed and overly restrictive regulations are not just slowing growth of the industry. The Largest Industries and corporations in a
Which as my colleagues have said, right now its difficult for industry to have access to air space for the purposes of research and development. We believe the test sites offer them the perfect opportunity to meet those Research Needs here in the u. S. And thats why were working with the test sites to expand the ability for them to attract that kind of research. Again, if faa Research Needs can be met at the test sites, we will certainly look to Fund Projects at those test sites as well. So when you say youre working with the test sites to expand that opportunity can you tell me a little bit more about that . Again, were trying to keep them well informed about what they are able to do under the agreements that they have with the faa we now have individuals actually from the test center who will be traveling to each of the test sites to work with them more closely on what it is that we might be looking for to be able to get Research Data through the test sites. And then the designees we
As required, we set out to have one test site operational within six months of election. We surpassed that goal within four months and three more sites operational within six months of their selections. Now all six uas sites are fully operational and have established their research agendas. The data and information from the test sites will help answer key questions about how Unmanned Aircraft Systems Interface in the air space as well as with air Traffic Control. The Faa Technical Center in Atlantic City is playing a key role in Data Collection and analysis and will continue to make significant contributions to uas integration to identify the data that will be most useful to the faa. We are moving forward through rule making. As md byantehe act, the rule making to permit civil operation of small uas in the air space. We all agree that project is taking too long. But im pleased to say we believe we have a balanced proposal thats currently under executive review. In the meantime and cons
The use of genetically modified organisms on farms and in food products. In august a federal Aviation Administration missed a deadline for writing rules for drones to prevent interference with regular air traffic. This week an faa official testified at a house hearing that the missed deadline means e comprehensive rules wont be made until 2017 at the earliest. This hearing of the subcommittee on aviation is two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. Would like to ask unanimous consent that members not on the committee in addition to members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing. Theres a great deal of interest and offer testimony and asked questions. Without objection, so ordered. Would like to thank all of you for being here. The United States has been the Global Leader in aviation. Were all very proud of that. The American Leadership in manufacturing, air transportation, Flight Safety and technological innovation is tremen