{"id":8122,"date":"2012-12-20T18:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:54:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8122","title":{"rendered":"EFF: “Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in US”"},"content":{"rendered":"

EFF: Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in US<\/a>:<\/p>\n

View EFF’s new Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations<\/a> in a larger window.<\/p>\n

Today [12\/5] EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States.<\/p>\n

These records, received as a result of EFF\u2019s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and\u2014for the first time\u2014three branches of the U.S. military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the one in Arkansas, I copied this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Governmental Body\/Entity: North Little Rock Police Dept<\/p>\n

Type of Drone: Rotomotion SR30 UAS helicopter<\/p>\n

Status: Active<\/p>\n

General Location of Drone Activity: Little Rock, AR<\/p>\n

Stated objective\/purpose of COA: Operation of the Rotomotion SR30 UAS helicopter in the National Airspace System over unpopulated areas of Lonoke County, Arkansas. The objective is to gather data regarding operation of UAS helicopters in the National Airspace System for future UAS helicopter operations in support of local law enforcement. Operation of the Rotomotion SR30 UAS helicopter below 400′ AGL. All flight operations will be conducted south of Interstate 40. This is an unpopulated area of a company owned park consisting of parking areas and recreational areas. The operation will launch\/recover from a fenced recreational area. Operations will be conducted only when the recreational areas are not in use. Flights will be conducted during daylight hours during optimal weather conditions. Flights will be limited to line of sight distances. Flight durations will not exceed sixty minutes in length. Flight crews will demonstrate flight planning, flight plan execution, change in flight path upon command by the observer to avoid simulated aircraft traffic, and recovery of the aircraft to the planned landing point. Emergency proceedures including manual control of the aircraft, recovery to a pre-planned emergency recovery point, and loss link proceedures will also be demonstrated.<\/p>\n

Effective Dates: May 17, 2011-May 16, 2012 (COAs from 2008-2012)<\/p>\n

Comments: “The Rotomotion SR30 is a small, economical, short endurance UA. Utilizing a helicopter platform, the SR30 houses one or two cameras in a pan\/tilt camera mount. The system is designed to track objects of interest even when the helicopter nose is pointed away from the object. The SR30 can carry day zoom cameras, infrared cameras, or both simultaneously. As purchased, the aircraft is equipped with both day and infrared cameras. The aircraft is capable of fully autonomous flight with auto-takeoff and landing. Manual control is provided by a 2.4 GHz safety controller.” (“North-Little-Rock-PD-2011_AIRCRAFT_SYSTEM.DOC”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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