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FAA lets Skyways fly drones from the Louisiana coast to offshore oil platforms

Overseeing Shell's platform-based drone program

A drone can now legally fly from the Louisiana shoreline to an oil platform in the Gulf of America without a human watching it the whole way. The Federal Aviation Administration gave Skyways that authorization on November 9, the first time it has allowed a long-range, beyond-visual-line-of-sight flight from the US coast out over open water.

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