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by Frank Jackman | Editor-in-Chief | July 25, 2019

In early July, Foundation Vice President, Technical, Mark Millam and I traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, to visit the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), which is one of seven Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-designated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites in the United States.


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