CNN Can Start Flying Drones Over People

The FAA gives CNN the all clear.

Scoring some birds-eye landscape footage thanks to unmanned aerial systems, or drones in the popular vernacular, is cool and all, but how much better would it be to hover those remote-controlled technological marvels (or horrors, depending on how you feel about this) over people?

We’ll find out soon enough, now that CNN has received a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration that allows them to fly drones over people.

“The use of UAS has huge promise for newsgatherers and consumers of news.

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