{"id":45,"date":"2013-03-18T21:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=45"},"modified":"2013-03-18T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:37:27","slug":"the-skys-the-limit-for-drone-research-at-virginia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"The sky&#8217;s the limit for drone research at Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"readin\">Virginia Tech is a player in a potential federal drone test range. Meanwhile, the university is doing its own research \u2014 and drone is not the preferred term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"slideshowPic\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/csp\/cms\/sites\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=RbWDqMEipLHu4BSmittKiM$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYt84aR5l_fr2JQSLB6AxciwWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&amp;CONTENTTYPE=image\/jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>BLACKSBURG \u2014 With nearby airports notified that an unusual aircraft was about to take off, a drone rose from a Montgomery County field March 9.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned helicopter climbed to a training altitude of about 130 feet and roamed a few miles outside Blacksburg.<\/p>\n<p>Drones aren\u2019t only prowling the Middle East to try and incinerate terrorists. They fly over such American communities as the New River Valley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/nrv\/1781625-12\/the-skys-the-limit-for-drone-research-at.html\">http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/nrv\/1781625-12\/the-skys-the-limit-for-drone-research-at.html<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Tech is a player in a potential federal drone test range. Meanwhile, the university is doing its own research \u2014 and drone is not the preferred term. &nbsp; BLACKSBURG \u2014 With nearby airports notified that an unusual aircraft was about to take off, a drone rose from a Montgomery County field March 9. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}