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Vol. 66 No. 1
January 8, 2016

Nellis, U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Spangler

Creech

Airmen soar

during Las

Vegas Bowl

pre-game

ceremony

Airmen from Nellis and Creech
Air Force Bases, Nev., hold up
the American Flag during the
national anthem before the
Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl at
Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas,
Dec. 19, 2015. Approximately 200
Airmen volunteered to hold the
flag for the pre-game ceremony.

Tommy got a toy drone for Christmas, what’s next?

By Luana Shafer get to the instructions and safety rules tion believes 2015 was a defining year Do they apply to me? What is my li-
later. Let’s go f lying! for the drone, with sales expecting ability?”
Special to the Bullseye to approach 700,000 this year. The
Whoa speed racer! It’s probably a industry must be selling all of those General rules
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. good idea to take some time to go over drones as FAA statistics show a surge t 4NBMM VONBOOFE BJSDSBGU NVTU
— The presents have been opened the capabilities of your new aircraft, in “close call with drone” reports by give way to all manned aviation activi-
and the wrapping paper placed in the look at some safety aspects of your pilots of manned aircraft: about 700 ties: airplanes, gliders, parachutists,
recycling bin. Tommy is anxious to get operations, and understand the re- incidents in 2015, roughly triple the hang gliders, the Goodyear blimp,
outside and fly the new “Invader 700” sponsibilities you have just assumed. amount recorded in 2014. etc. If it flies or glides, it has the right
drone, complete with a 10-times zoom of way.
digital camera that sends immediate But this is a toy, right? Wrong. The Maybe we should review some of t5IFPQFSBUPSNVTUSFNBJOXJUIJO
videos to your new iPad. Federal Aviation Administration has these rules before the big day ap- visual line-of-sight of the small un-
stated that unmanned aircraft systems proaches, as you are probably now
Wow, you can’t wait to get out there are aircraft, not toys. asking yourself, ”Rules? What rules? _________ See DRONE, on page 5
with him and f ly this thing. We can
The Consumer Electronics Associa-

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