Inside CECI: The FAA’s Front Door For Innovation

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When a new project arrives at the FAA’s Center for Emerging Concepts and Innovation, or CECI, its engineers ask: “Is it an airplane or a helicopter?” “And if the answer is yes, then we have to tailor our certification requirements because we don’t have specific rules out there that address something...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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