WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration cracked open the door Thursday to commercial drones in the continental USA by allowing six movie companies to fly remote aircraft for films and television shows.
The exemptions to a general ban on commercial drones marks a significant step as the agency develops comprehensive rules for drones to share the skies with passenger planes, an effort likely to take years.
Drone advocates who welcomed the advance warned that pizza deliveries are probably at least a few years off.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the "significant milestone" with Christopher Dodd, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.
"These companies are blazing a trail that others are already following, offering the promise of new advances in agriculture and utility safety and maintenance," Foxx said. "As we've seen, uses for unmanned aircraft are only limited by our imagination."
The companies that won approval Thursday are Astraeus Aerial, Aerial MOB, HeliVideo Productions, Pictorvision, Snaproll Media and Vortex Aerial. The FAA has asked for more information from a seventh company that applied at the same time, Flying-Cam.
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what won't drones be used for, at this point?
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