October 3, 2019
U.S.: What Can Brown Do for Ag Drones? A Lot.
Big commercial drone industry news dropped recently with FAA announcing approval of UPS’ last mile drone delivery business – UPS Flight Forward – for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) medical supply delivery in North Carolina, writes Matthew Grassi at CropLife.
For those using drones in any commercial capacity, not to mention big acre farming, this is big news.
One, it stands to reason this can and eventually will go a long way toward normalizing Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) missions, the likes of which have long freaked out aviation and aerial application bureaucrats who see drones as a legitimate safety threat to manned operations in the National Air Space (NAS).
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U.S.: What Can Brown Do for Ag Drones? A Lot.
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