When you’re down an engine and you have lot of water under you, you have a process to follow. You don’t panic, you don’t go off the rails, you remember your training, and that’s what happened here.
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The first modern, lethal drone strike took place one month after 9/11. Twenty years later, our view of warfare and military personnel has completely changed.
Australia was once at the forefront of RPAS regulation, but we now trail other jurisdictions – and we’re alarmingly misaligned with international best practice.
Airplanes could be safer with technology at the helm. A key sticking point is human opinion.
The drone market is booming, with some unwanted consequences for wildlife. A new study argues that threatened species might need extra protections.
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