Day: November 22, 2020

The second phase of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management pilot program (UTM/UPP) ended with testing demonstrations in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) focused on testing remote identification (RID) technology and beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations, according to a Nov. 17 press release. The demonstrations used test sites at the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) and the New York UAS Test Site (NYUASTS)…

New research suggests that frequent fliers cause half of aviation’s passenger emissions, despite making up only one per cent of the world’s population. The study is  The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change by Stefan Gossling and Andreas Humpe. Published in the November issue of the Global Environmental Change Journal, the research says that the share of the world’s population travelling by air in 2018 was just 11 per cent,…