8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#22852558 at 2025-04-01 19:16:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27903: Blessed Are The PeaceMakers On Melania Tuesdays And Beyond Edition
Over ?20 million to help drones and flying taxis take to UK skies
1 April 2025
Drone services at a commercial scale and flying taxis could soon be a reality as the Aviation Minister confirms over ?20 million funding today (1 April 2025) to launch new flight technologies.
The new funding will unlock barriers to growth - which is the priority of the Plan for Change - and maximise opportunities for better and cheaper public services while cutting carbon emissions.
It is designed to advance aviation tech to support healthcare for the NHS, assist police forces in combatting crime, help inspect and survey critical infrastructure and unlock delivery services for businesses and communities across the country.??
As part of this, both the Aviation Minister and Science Minister have today also set out how the Department for Transport (DfT), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the new Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will streamline regulatory processes to support the commercialisation of the industry
Aviation Minister, Mike Kane, said:
I want the UK to have the most advanced aviation technology ecosystem in the world.
That means creating a nimble regulatory environment and a culture of innovation so everyone can benefit from cutting-edge transport while tackling emissions, traffic and potentially saving lives.
Our investment alongside the new Future of Flight industry group will bring together tech experts, drone operators, flying vehicle manufacturers and local communities to identify where change needs to happen.
With safety at the heart of these advancements, the RIO is driving smarter regulation to cut red tape while ensuring high safety standards.
It will support DfT and CAA in enabling faster, integration of drones and flying taxi industries, helping businesses grow and innovate.
This includes consulting on the mandatory use of new electronic conspicuity standards and technologies, which allow aircraft to share their location electronically, helping drones and crewed aircraft fly safely alongside each other.
By making approvals quicker and operations more efficient, this will open new opportunities for the industry while maintaining the highest safety standards.
Science Minister, Lord Vallance, said:
These regulatory reforms for drones - requiring all aircraft to share their location - will make drone operations safer and therefore speed up approvals, allowing them to operate near airports and simplifying their use for delivering medical supplies - while unlocking further commercial opportunities.
This is a practical step to cut red tape and a great piece of progress for the Regulatory Innovation Office, growing the UK's position as a world leader in emerging technologies and helping drive the growth that will deliver our Plan for Change.
In addition, as previously confirmed by the Chancellor, plans are now underway to simplify regulations to enable 2-year airspace change for drone operations. This will enable operators to fly safely for longer and gather data to inform future services.
Other changes will simplify regulations to enable emergency services including firefighters and paramedics to use drone services, as well as noise exemptions for drone trials within the Airspace Change Process, and simplifying the drone operational application process to enable them to get flying faster and easier.
Furthermore, the regulator, drone operators, flying vehicle innovators and local authorities will come together with government at the Future of Flight industry group to help guide the government on its mission to transform technology in aviation.
Part of the government's Plan for Change, the group will focus on how to unlock the benefits of future aviation technologies to propel the country's economic growth forward.
It will look at how government can harness the potential of technology and create a culture of innovation, with the aim of improving everyday challenges like emergency across the public sector face, while helping cut carbon emissions.
The Minister for Aviation will co-chair the group, alongside Duncan Walker, CEO of Skyports.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-20-million-to-help-drones-and-flying-taxis-take-to-uk-skies
#22748841 at 2025-03-12 21:33:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27791: JUSTICE. Edition
Cargo ship's captain arrested over North Sea crash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w093exx4qo
The captain of a cargo ship has been arrested after it collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea.
The Portuguese-flagged Solong and the US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate crashed off the East Yorkshire coast at about 10:00 GMT on Monday.
Humberside Police said the 59-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter following searches for a missing crew member of the Solong.
Crowley, the Florida-based joint owners of the stricken oil tanker, said the fire on board its vessel had "greatly diminished with no visible flames".
The company said it was continuing to help the UK authorities during initial salvage activities but its priorities were the wellbeing of its 23-strong crew and efforts to limit the environmental impact of the crash.
It added that it was unclear how much of the jet fuel it was carrying had been released into the sea but an "initial review shows impacts have been limited due to exposure to the fire and evaporation of the fuel".
German firm Ernst Russ, which owns the Solong, confirmed to the BBC that the man arrested is the master of the ship.
It said he, along with the rest of the crew, were assisting the investigation.
A crew member from the cargo ship was still missing and presumed dead after a search and rescue operation ended on Monday evening, according to Transport Minister Mike Kane.
#22729523 at 2025-03-09 11:12:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27768: It's About To Happen Edition
FARAGE ARTICLE IN THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Note: the news in the u.k is full of the split and complete ignoring everything else in the world, the boats are still coming, the u.k has fallen out with trump and sided with europe and the country is falling into disrepair with a budget coming in april where they will bring in social credit I.D system, china style.
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Nigel Farage
Reform has acted responsibly over Rupert Lowe
The stakes are too high: my party has elections to win
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Reform UK, Nigel Farage, General Election 2024, House of Commons, Great Yarmouth, Lee Anderson
08 March 2025 6:04pm GMT
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/08/reform-has-an-election-to-win-cant-afford-to-waste-time/
https://archive.ph/1OVL2
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If the last general election taught us anything, it is that the public does not like political parties that engage in constant infighting.
The never-ending civil war that came to define the last Conservative government resulted in the loveless, though large, Labour majority that Britain is saddled with today. I'm acutely aware of this, which is why Reform UK has devoted so much time and effort since July to building a unified national party machine.
Now, thanks to one of our MPs, Rupert Lowe, unloading a barrage of criticisms against our operations and its main actors, that sense of unity has been dented.
The truth is that Mr Lowe has made some excellent interventions over the past eight months and helped to stimulate public debate on a range of pressing issues facing the country.
What many people may not have realised, however, is that in that time he has also managed to fall out with all his parliamentary colleagues in one way or another. We did our best to keep a lid on things but, in the end, containment strategies invariably fail.
One clear example of the type of difficulty that I have in mind occurred in the chamber of the House of Commons just as Parliament was about to enter the Christmas recess.
It was the last parliamentary debate of the year. Mr Lowe, who represents Great Yarmouth, asked Mike Kane, the transport minister, a question about the MV Ruby, a damaged cargo ship which had docked in his constituency while carrying hundreds of tonnes of the potentially explosive fertiliser ammonium nitrate.
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