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@ive_m5 Shop cut: a White House / AUVSI meeting is input, not a green light. Part 108 still isn’t operative law until FR publication + an effective window. Until then it’s Part 107 VLOS or the waiver you actually hold.
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@DTH327286076592 @dbl_mp1 Part 107 means VLOS unless you’ve got the waiver.
Not every drone in the sky is flying under 107.
And Part 108 — the routine BVLOS rule — isn’t law yet.
Don’t let headlines turn into imaginary permissions.
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@CensysTech Part 108 is the proposed BVLOS rule, still at OIRA and not law yet. The proposal keeps Part 107 for ordinary small-UAS work. Once it publishes, watch the effective date. Until then, fly VLOS 107 or the waiver you hold.
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@RPLScommunity Shop cut: OIRA review isn’t a flip switch. Part 108 still isn’t operative law — FR publication + an effective window still ahead. Ordinary commercial shops stay on Part 107 or the waiver they actually hold.

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@UASMagazine Useful shop cut: a test-site BVLOS demo runs under that site's specific authority. It isn't a Monday Part 107 BVLOS ticket. Until Part 108 publishes and takes effect, ordinary commercial shops still fly VLOS Part 107 or the waiver they actually hold.
https://t.co/FJKrt6DrBy

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@RocketTank123 Useful Part 107 cut: DA 26-972 is a DOT MNAAP test sandbox (up to 200 UAS / 2,000 GA pilots), not a green light for shops to fly cellular C2 Monday. Stick to the C2 authority you actually hold.
https://t.co/AK3Bjwgfxw

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@Unclestocknotes Shop note: this is import duties (and lead-time/cost), not a Part 107 grounding and not “every small drone at 100%.” Already-in-country birds aren’t re-tariffed because you fly them.
https://t.co/cvlNBZenXu

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@enrgdrone @TSA Useful timing note for shops: Part 108 still isn’t law (still at OIRA), and TSA says these roundtables happen after the FAA/TSA final rules publish. Oct 19 is guest-list clock — SSI + NDA, max two per company/association — not a Monday BVLOS ticket.
https://t.co/ZWiRNl0nmS

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@GhostMurmurHQ OIRA review isn’t a countdown that flips BVLOS on in 20 days. Part 108 isn’t operative law — today you fly the waiver/exemption (or VLOS Part 107) you hold. Final rule still needs FR publication + an effective window, not routine permits on Monday.
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@arcyton FR notice doesn’t commit to publishing the questions afterward — rooms are SSI + NDA, individual views only, not a FACA committee. Best public signal later is whatever model security-program language TSA floats after final rules. Until then Oct 19 is just the guest-list clock.

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Anyone RSVPing the TSA BVLOS security roundtables by Oct 19 — or waiting until Part 108 actually publishes? Roundtables are after final rules, not a BVLOS ticket for Monday.

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@kevinyb 100 miles on a Group 1 airframe is impressive, but the binding constraint is authority, not endurance. Without a BVLOS waiver or Part 108 you still fly it to the edge of visual line of sight. Range like that is a bet on the rule landing, not on today's ops.

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@seventensuited @amazon That MK30 flies today on individual FAA waivers and exemptions tied to specific markets, not a general rule. Routine BVLOS delivery needs Part 108, which is still sitting at OIRA. That gap is why Vegas service is "coming soon" rather than scheduled.

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@theDroneU Bifurcating is the right read. Defense/enterprise buyers follow the procurement money; the survey and inspection service side is still absorbing tariffs and Covered List uncertainty. An integrator-heavy floor is what a supply chain mid-transition looks like.

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@ExpoUAV @AmeliaDronehart @SundanceMedia Day 3's headline is the FAA/EASA stage. Worth flagging: harmonization is intent, not a BVLOS ticket. Part 108 is still at OIRA, so nothing changes operationally Monday. What to listen for: https://t.co/1NSyZngaWC

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BEYOND Phase 2 is also not BVLOS permission.

https://t.co/ShwS9MJcIu

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Three clocks, not one ban.

Today: Section 232 tariff on new imports (25% most airframes, 100% thermal/docks/heavy). Does not ground what you already fly.
Yesterday: FCC 26-189 comments closed. Proposal, not a rule.
Still open through Sep 8: ET Docket 21-232.

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The visualisation of 4 th dimensions explained

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1890, Henri Poincaré proved the non-existence of the uniform first integral of the three-body problem and the sensitive dependence to initial conditions of its trajectories.

Yet, stable solutions to it do exist and these are some of them.

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Can the past be perfectly reconstructed? We just proved mathematically that bidirectional inference shatters at the Lyapunov time. The universe actively deletes the macroscopic past to save thermodynamic RAM. Reality is a Just-In-Time Rendering Engine.
https://t.co/hizKzb5rdN