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Rules and approvals governing civil aviation, chiefly the FAA's oversight of aircraft, airspace, air traffic systems, drones and experimental flight.
Six House Democrats asked the FAA on October 13 to pause SMART, its AI air traffic tool, 22 days after it went live at three Washington-area airports. The letter cannot block adoption, and the only case for slower rollout or higher vendor costs is Cryptopolitan's conditional one.
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Prime Air will add five states and six times the coverage by year-end. Its own delivery target, its accident file and a December permit decision in England are the harder numbers.
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The authorization names one test aircraft, two blocks of restricted airspace over White Sands and an expiry in August 2027, and the Ramjet-X flight test service Hermeus wants to sell on top of it still needs its own paperwork.
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Pyka's authorisation covers a tightly defined agricultural setting and still requires a ground operator plus a visual observer, so the buyer's return has to come out of chemical volume rather than salaries.
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Zipline lowers cargo on a line from a drone hovering 260 feet up, and says its network has flown more than 130 million autonomous miles. Last-mile planners now have something to price against.
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