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Reported by the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34351841) A request by Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli to close the air space over her wedding venue has sparked a row between the country’s transport minister and the civil aviation authority (CAA). The CAA had agreed to close the skies over the hotel in northern Israel. But Transport Minister Yisrael Katz then […]
The July 2015 meeting of the UK Airprox Board assessed an airprox reported by a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter pilot flying at 2500ft just west of Bristol earlier this year which came within 30-50ft of a drone. THE LYNX PILOT reports transiting to RNAS Yeovilton. The aircraft was descending from 2500ft to 1500ft when a small […]
Amazon proposes airspace from 200ft-400ft exclusively for autonomous drones, with a further 100ft above it declared a no-fly zone. See Amazon’s document “Revising the Airspace Model for the Safe Integration of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems “