National Airspace

I stumbled across a very interesting article about how we have become a step closer to drones in the national airspace. The week of June 12^th the FAA granted NASA permission to fly Ikhana in the national airspace. Ikhana is a modified predator drone. The drone flew a test mission at 20,000ft in the national airspace where commercial jet lines fly. This is an amazing sign for the drone community. This shows that the FAA has enough confidence in NASA’s technology to let it fly in the national airspace. This technology could become available to the general aviation as well not just the private sector or the government. This could mean within the next 10 year we have cargo and passenger planes that are fully autonomous. This article is the type of stuff I dream about and I hope one day I could take part in helping develop or test this technology.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/ikhana-nasa-has-just-flown-unmanned-aircraft-public-airspace-976094