LOCAL: I published some market research and a thesis on drone service integration in 2018. I just received another citation, this time from a conference in India. That’s rad. It’s like getting a bass drop in my otherwise mundane daily grind. I spent the past weekend doing taxes and paying Uncle Sam. I painted some cats.
NEWS:
Meanwhile, medical drones are in test.
Sean Duffy at the Dept. of Transportation proposes moving commercial drone service integration to the next level. BVLOS and air cargo under the umbrella of “Part 108” proposals…. that people were making nine years ago in the UASSC and being roundly ignored, but the tech was maturing. Now the industry is ready, like dinner bell ready. The money is there, the billions. That’s gnarly. That’s like doing the Broadway on Hot Pants Road.
If you are John Q Public with a hot idea to move the industry forward, ANSI listens. General Public: Participate in the ANS Process
Consider joining an industry group. If you have folding money, check out the Individual Membership | AUVSI.
Or, check out Uncle Sam’s folding money. Federal Business Opportunities | AUVSI
If you want a deeper dive into Part 108. Federal Register :: UAS Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight Operations
SCIENCE:
Remote Sensing – NASA A primer on remote sensing basics.
ART:
Next painting draft and previous painting final next week. I am waiting for paint to dry. Wow.
Local man sours on art theft restitution price tag and prison term and whatnot. Key witness in art heist trial sentenced for his role in theft ring – Scranton Times-Tribune. They stole Warhol’s “La Grande Passion”. La Grande Passion, 1984 – Andy Warhol – WikiArt.org
Crime sells news. From the AP wire, today in history: In 1990, two thieves posing as police officers subdued security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art in Boston and stole 13 works of art valued at over $500 million in the biggest art heist in history.
Falcon P & O 
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