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<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Along with the enthusiasm, there are qualms.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Drones overhead could invade people's privacy. The government worries they could collide with passenger planes or come crashing down to the ground, concerns that have slowed more widespread adoption of the technology.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Despite that, pressure is building to give drones the same access as manned aircraft to the sky at home.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">"It's going to be the next big revolution in aviation. It's coming," says Dan Elwell, the Aerospace Industries Association's vice president for civil aviation.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some impetus comes from the military, which will bring home drones from Afghanistan and wants room to test and use them. In December, Congress gave the Federal Aviation Administration six months to pick half a dozen sites around the country where the military and others can fly unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of regular air traffic, with the aim of demonstrating they're safe.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Defense Department says the demand for drones and their expanding missions requires routine and unfettered access to domestic airspace, including around airports and cities. In a report last October, the Pentagon called for flights first by small drones both solo and in groups, day and night, expanding over several years. Flights by large and medium-sized drones would follow in the latter half of this decade.</p>
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</span><span style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial">JOAN LOWY</span>, Associated Press</span>WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments, border patrols, power companies, news organizations and others wanting a bird's-eye view that's too impractical or dangerous for conventional planes or helicopters to get.</span></span></p>
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