Because Every Wedding Should Have A Drone!
Click here for reuse options!The Federal Aviation Administration indicated Wednesday that it is investigating whether a video of a congressman’s wedding last month violated the agency’s ban on drone flights for commercial purposes.
The agency’s carefully worded statement doesn’t mention Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., by name, but said it was looking into “a report of an unmanned aircraft operation in Cold Spring, New York, on June 21 to determine if there was any violation of federal regulations or airspace restrictions.”
Maloney has acknowledged hiring a photographer to produce a video of his wedding using a camera mounted on a small drone. The wedding took place in Cold Spring on June 21. Maloney is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s aviation subcommittee, which oversees the FAA.
Top agency officials have testified extensively before Congress about their concern that commercial drones could collide with manned aircraft or injure people on the ground. Congress has been pressing the FAA to move faster on creating regulations that will allow commercial drones access to U.S. skies. The agency has been working on regulations for about a decade.
“On their wedding day, Sean and Randy were focused on a ceremony 22 years in the making, not their wedding photographer’s camera mounted on his remote control helicopter,” Stephanie Formas, spokeswoman for Maloney, said in a statement.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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Anomaly 100 July 17th, 2014 at 11:38
Don’t drone me, bro.
Anomaly 100 July 17th, 2014 at 11:38
Don’t drone me, bro.
ChrisVosburg July 17th, 2014 at 14:26
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney spokesperson Stephanie Formas says: On their wedding day, Sean and Randy were focused on a ceremony 22 years in the making, not their wedding photographer’s camera mounted on his remote control helicopter
Thanks for that, Steph, for calling it what it is– an RC helicopter, which is what hobbyists have known it as for decades. It’s nothing new, and there are already regs in place for RC aircraft, which have been laid out by the Academy of Model Aeronautics for “good citizen” RC enthusiasts to follow, and I assume the FAA will borrow heavily from these in writing up its own regs.
In any case, I’m fed up with the media’s “drone” nomenclature. I’ve even seen print articles in which each spoken utterance of UAV or UA or whatever is replaced with [drone]. A UAV is not a male bumblebee, for christ’s sake.
ChrisVosburg July 17th, 2014 at 14:26
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney spokesperson Stephanie Formas says: On their wedding day, Sean and Randy were focused on a ceremony 22 years in the making, not their wedding photographer’s camera mounted on his remote control helicopter
Thanks for that, Steph, for calling it what it is– an RC helicopter, which is what hobbyists have known it as for decades. It’s nothing new, and there are already regs in place for RC aircraft, which have been laid out by the Academy of Model Aeronautics for “good citizen” RC enthusiasts to follow, and I assume the FAA will borrow heavily from these in writing up its own regs.
In any case, I’m fed up with the media’s “drone” nomenclature. I’ve even seen print articles in which each spoken utterance of UAV or UA or whatever is replaced with [drone]. A UAV is not a male bumblebee, for christ’s sake.
burqa July 17th, 2014 at 23:12
They’ll get my drone when they pry the toggle from my cold, dead fingers!
burqa July 17th, 2014 at 23:12
They’ll get my drone when they pry the toggle from my cold, dead fingers!