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March 18, 2013

Domestic Drones Stir Imaginations, and Concerns

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Published: Monday, 18 Mar 2013 | 11:14 AM ET
By: Matthew L. Wald

Jonathan Nackstrand | AFP | Getty Images)

On the pilot’s computer screen, planted at ground level a few yards from the airport runway here, the data streaming across the display tracked an airplane at 1,300 feet above a small city on the coast, making perfect circles at 150 miles per hour.

To the pilot’s right, a sensor operator was aiming a camera on the plane to pan, tilt and zoom in a search among the houses on the ground for people who had been reported missing.

On his screen, cartoonlike human figures appeared in a gathering around a camp fire between the houses.

“There they are,” Andrew Regenhard, the pilot and a student, said in a flat tone that seemed out of place with a successful rescue mission.

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