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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new regulation restricting unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of Interior sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.
[...] The announcement says the action comes at "the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies." It says it marks the first time the FAA has restricted drone flights over Interior Department landmarks, although many of the sites were covered by a National Park Service ban on drones issued in 2014.
But that ban pertained to "launching, landing or operating unmanned aircraft" in national parks. The FAA's announcement includes the airspace above parks and landmarks.
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FAA Restricts Drone Operations Over 10 U.S. Landmarks
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @06:32PM (2 children)
They want to restrict drones flying over Mt. Rushmore? That's nonsense. It's a really large mass of hard stone. A little plastic drone is not going to hurt it.
It would make much more sense to say, 'hey, no crashing 747s into Mt. Rushmore!' or, 'No firing your surplus M1 tank's main gun at Mt. Rushmore!'
It's stupid bureaucrats latching on to an irrational hysteria of the public's attached to the word 'drone.' Why didn't they previously issue a ban against RC planes and helicopters, which are exactly the same thing? Why not? Because the public would have called them a bunch of stupid wastes of carbon they way they ought to do now.
Attaching the word 'drone' to threats to the people visiting those places makes no sense, either. So, now people are afraid of drones attacking people at Mt. Rushmore instead of a passing pickup truck lobbing a grenade into the crowds of people loading on and off the big tour buses there?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:21PM
They could fly C4 into the nose!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 29 2017, @09:18PM
Maybe, the Pentagon needed a reminder that only its NSA branch should be accidentally targeting US Citizens, and the Reapers should stay near where the suspicious crowds are brown people's weddings, not tourists.