# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 21 November 2014 |
| 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 systems; UAS; unmanned aircraft |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| Title | Aerospace dean: We’ll stay within FAA’s parameters |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1135543791/?terms=unmanned |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2014-11-21|grand-forks-herald|smith-faa-parameters |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2014-11-21-grand-forks-herald-smith-faa-parameters.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E1fgqg1Wdpjtyv5kQT5S5j50d7s9fQ6I

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Bruce Smith, dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at UND, wrote on the Herald opinion page that UND’s unmanned-aircraft programs would stay inside Federal Aviation Administration parameters. Since the onset of UND’s UAS programs in 2005, Smith wrote, the school has worked closely with the FAA and will continue to do so “to come up with the right” (rules). He identified the Odegard School’s UAS Center of Excellence and the Northern Plains UAS Test Site as the local enterprises and said both “fully intend to work within the rules and regulations set forth by the FAA.” Where regulations have yet to be written, he said UND is committed to supporting and enabling the FAA to build those regulations, “no matter how long it takes.” The letter answers a recent Herald story on unmanned-aircraft experts and the Grand Sky initiative; Smith said getting “into trouble,” paying “fines to the FAA,” and picking “a fight with the government” is the opposite of the Odegard / test-site position. The FAA, he wrote, has been a valued partner of the Odegard School since its early beginnings.

**Kinematic object.** Civil UAS research/education fleet and Northern Plains UAS Test Site (UND Odegard / Grand Sky).

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / university

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: First local print of the UND aerospace dean’s signed statement on FAA limits for Grand Forks UAS work.
- Wire reprint status: Signed local letter/column (Bruce Smith), not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on a 4×8 cacheable-tile stitch of the A4 opinion page. Hed, Smith identity, 2005 start, CoE + Northern Plains Test Site, and “within the rules and regulations set forth by the FAA” are locked. Adjacent Buffalo blizzard package and holiday-store letters interleave.
- What was excluded: Buffalo blizzard wire package, holiday-hours letters, and the Reader Board political question.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged the UND dean putting the Grand Sky / Northern Plains test-site work explicitly under FAA rulemaking rather than against it.

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