Tag Archive: Missy Cummings

Jan 24

Drones Over America: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Leave it to The Onion to satirize current feelings about drone technology in America. Taking a jab at concerns that domestic drone use is on the rise, the newspaper offered the following headline on Monday: “Obama Begins Inauguration Festivities With Ceremonial Drone Flyover.” On one hand, drones generate excitement among amateur builders and aerospace manufacturers alike …

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May 01

Book Your Next Flight on the New Drone Airline

Every time we board a plane, we are boarding a drone. It’s now possible for airplanes to taxi, take off, fly and land all without the help of human hands. At the Wired Business Conference, Missy Cummings, an associate professor in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, talked about how radically different the life of a fighter …

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