Author: Kevin Hogencamp
Publisher: Jax Daily Record
Date: December 18, 2013
Like children waiting for Santa Claus, developers of unmanned aircraft — the robotics technology popularly known as drones — are chomping at the bits.
So are executives from a variety of industries whose efficiencies and opportunities stand to greatly improve when the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifts its ban on commercial drone use, perhaps as early as 2015. Those industries range from agribusiness to weather forecasting to disaster response.
Meanwhile, a new educational sector is emerging. Hundreds of student pilots nationwide are preparing for a job market that doesn’t exist yet, but is expected to proliferate when flying drones in U.S. airspace becomes legal. Read more here.
