If the machines are properly certificated to the same engineering safety standards as manned aircraft, and are operated by trained and certificated "pilots" in specifically approved airspace, I have no problem with them. FAA Aircraft Engineering fought the hobbyist drone intrusion into the national airspace system tooth and nail. The drone lobby politicked their way around a proper engineering approval and forced the current political hobbyist operating scheme down the FAA's throat. The politics of it are slowly swinging back the other way....thanks to many safety minded people like me and idiot hobbyist operators who regularly make the evening news.
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