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ARTICLE · 01 OCTOBER 2015

Drones, Now and in Future

Almost every day we hear stories and news about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ("UAVs"), also known as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems or "drones".

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Yigit Turker
Yigit Turker

Almost every day we hear stories and news about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ("UAVs"), also known as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems or "drones".  The European Aviation Safety Agency, (which is the European Union Authority for aviation safety, focuses on the strategy and safety management, the certification of aviation products and the oversight of approved organisations in European Union Member States) issued a proposal on July 31, 2015 namely Advance Notice of Proposed Amendment 2015-10 defines a drone as "an aircraft without a human pilot on board, whose flight is controlled either autonomously or under the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle." [1] 

We also have been hearing news about UAVs being used for delivering pizzas[2], packages[3], medicines[4] etc.  Commercial usages of UAVs are expected to highly increase in the years to come.  Amazon.com, one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies, announced that, a future delivery system

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