Model aircraft operators free to operate commercially in US, rules federal judge

Post by wiml » Sat, Mar 08, 2014, 8:25 PM UTC

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #64

smtddr wrote: post #5

Huh, so if Amazon really wants to start sending out those drones they no longer have any legal hurdles? I expect to hear stories of college kids capturing them before EOY.

There are many more hurdles that realistically keep Amazon from doing what they said. Multi-tenant housing, people running under landing drones wanting to hit the 'Sue Amazon' lottery, and airspace ownership above private property are just a few of the gigantic hurdles that will take years to sort out. Not to mention the power consumption issue still limits this idea tremendously. At this point, it's just as realisti…

Post by marktangotango » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #129

marktangotango wrote: post #79

Is anyone doing an orbiting UAV as a signal transponder for microwave radio? Ie line of site networking. Internet off the commercial backbones. The privacy and security implication should be clear.

Sure. Just bounce your signal off the moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EME_(communications) (There are also plenty of amateur satellites that you can use for communication. You won't like the rules, though: no encryption. You also won't like the realities of powering a radio transmitter in space: with a few minutes of sun per orbit onto a tiny solar panel, you get less radio output power than your WiFi network has.…