Vineyard. He then walked us out took some grapes from that area and grapes from the rest of the vineyard and you could clearly taste the difference between the two sets. He said before today he never knew that existed and that happened in two hours. Congressman thank you for the question. The numbers that auv si put together in 2013, the 802 82 billion in the first ten years, we think as high as 80 could be agriculture. Absolutely. Dr. Williams, i come from a state where the chamber of commerce likes for us to use the phrase significant weather events occur on a common place in a common way. My home state is making a lot of investments in weather related research. One of the things that i understand is that challenge is this requirement to obtain a certificate of authorization coa or a section 33 exemptions which can be kind of challenging and cumbersome. Whats the faa doing to expedite the approval process for this kind of thing. Were actually working in both areas to approve the proc
Source hardware and software and reexamination and redefinition of the role of humans in the operation of these systems. We note in our report that this Research Program is best carried out by multiple government academic and industrial entities and will require effective coordination at all levels. Civil aviation is on the threshold of profound change increasingly autotonomous systems which often happens. Early adapters sometimes get caught up in the excitement of the moment greatly exaggerating the promise of things to come and greatly underestimating costs in terms of money time and in some cases unintended consequences or complications. Will indeed be great. There should be equally little doubt that getting there will while maintaining the safety and efficiency of u. S. Civil aviation will be no easy matter. We believe that the barriers and the Research Program weve identified is a vital next step and that concludes my testimony. Ill be happy to respond to questions. Thank you, dr.
What can drone users and the American People what is a realistic deadline for that integration . I would answer that right now we do have a level of integration. For public aircraft, they are flying every day. Nasa does research. We have Unmanned Aircraft. For civil applications, we are working closely with the faa to verify and validate these Key Technology barriers, the radio communications, the displays for the Ground Control stations to allow the faa to determine minimal operation standards. When can we expect the faa to propose some roles . The faa is working closely with our Administration Partners in the rulemaking process. We are doing everything we can to get that small Unmanned Aircraft rule out. Our main focus is to get it right. The role rulemaking process is deliberative. When you think you can get that out . I can i give you a firm deadline. Do you have a goal in mind . You have a lot of people across the United States waiting. Do you have any kind of working deadline or
Winds. This is not just a cold blast thats coming around here. This is near record cold. To be able to get record cold without a snow cover at this time of the year is really unusual, too. And the feelslike temperature, the windchill is down to near ten degrees on average across the area, especially tonight. Right now its in the 20s across much of the area to the low 30s. Nobody is above freezing. The windchills they are not above 20. 17 in philadelphia. 11 in reading. 15 in pottstown. 8 in lancaster. Look at these winds. This is the wind gusts here, 38 miles an hour in philadelphia, 41 at lancaster, 43 at mount pocono, 36 in atlantic city. It is just brutally cold out there. And the windchills as he would go through the afternoon, especially north and west, arent going to get out of the teens. So even if the middle of the afternoon, its not going to be feel very warm. 7 00, in the teens just about everywhere. 9 00, still in the teens. As we get toward the Early Morning hours, as the t
The sky was gray, but sunlight reflected off the gold underwings of Southern Airways’ commercial plane. In front of the aircraft, gold and silver shovels stood upright for the groundbreaking