From the Wild West to the National Airspace System: Roadmap for Integration of Unmanned Aircraft into the National Airspace System
By David Cain, J.D.1
- I. History of Aviation – Unde Vinimus
- A. Unmanned Aviation
- i. Early Unmanned Efforts: From Tethered Flight to World War I
- ii. The Golden Age: Unmanned Flight from World War I to World War II
- iii. From Radioplanes to Rockets: Unmanned Advancement in World War II
- iv. Beyond the New Horizon: Unmanned Flight from World War II to Present
- B. Regulatory History of Manned Aviation
- i. Over the Channel and Through the War: Blériot to the Air Commerce Act
- ii. The Aero Bramble Bush: Air Safety, Air Commerce, and the CAA
- iii. The First Giant Leap: World War II and the Coming of the Jet Age
- iv. Case on Point: The FAA and National Airspace Integration of Jet Aircraft
- C. National Airspace System – The Rise and Fall of Latency
- II. Current UAS Regulatory Landscape – Ubi Sumus
- A. Recent Unmanned Regulation Timeline
- B. RTCA Special Committee 203
- C. Unmanned as Exceptions to the Rule
- III. Roadmap for Regulatory Change – Quo Vadimus
- IV. Conclusion – Quo Potuimus Vadere