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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 25 August 2010 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | unmanned aircraft; unmanned aircraft system; UAS; unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned vehicles; DraganFlyer X6; micro unmanned vehicle |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | The Denver Post |
| Title | Unmanned aircraft taking wing but in need of lift from FAA |
| Dateline | Denver |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.denverpost.com/2010/08/25/unmanned-aircraft-taking-wing-but-in-need-of-lift-from-faa/ |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2010-08-25|denver-post|faa-uas-auvsi-mesa-county-draganflyer |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Ann Schrader reported that Mesa County sheriff's quartermaster Ben Miller used a 2-pound DraganFlyer X6 "micro" unmanned helicopter with a thermal-infrared camera to narrow a missing-person search in the 3,300-square-mile Western Slope county. Save for a couple of emergency waivers, the Canadian-built machine had not left a 1-mile radius of the Mesa County Landfill because the FAA limited UAS to demonstration flights under a special certificate. Miller said: "The FAA system sounds great on paper, but it doesn't work." FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the main concern was safety: operator-guided aircraft do not comply with "sense and avoid" rules, and more safety data were needed before integration into the National Airspace System. The piece was reported from that week's Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference at the Colorado Convention Center. Procerus Technologies CEO Todd Titensor showed Miller a Nano Shrike III. Northrop Grumman's Gene Fraser said the public could support "unblinking" coastal surveillance, hazmat, bomb squads, environmental sensing and weather work, but he doubted people would board an unmanned airliner. Brian Whiteside of Evergreen Aviation said: "There is a lot of fear about this technology and where it is going."

**Kinematic object.** DraganFlyer X6 micro helicopter (Mesa County Sheriff); Nano Shrike III (shown at AUVSI).

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / consumer / incident

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Denver Post local correspondent at AUVSI Denver quoting Mesa County, FAA, Northrop Grumman and Evergreen.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: later 2011 national police-drone wraps that reuse Mesa County.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Control Fabric / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a county sheriff UAS confined to a landfill bubble and FAA sense-and-avoid as the blocker.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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