{"id":137477,"date":"2010-01-04T20:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5440074"},"modified":"2010-01-04T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:20:04","slug":"four-years-in-this-flight-school-and-youll-never-leave-the-ground-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/137477","title":{"rendered":"Four Years in This Flight School and You&#8217;ll Never Leave the Ground [Education]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/predator-sensorball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_predator-sensorball.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Apparently the University of North Dakota thinks that you should spend four years in flight school and then never actually get off the ground. That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re offering a new degree in flying UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year undergraduate program already enrolled its first 12 students and there&#8217;s even talk of a graduate program being started up. Whatever happened to plain ol&#8217; regular pilot school? [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/human\/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-flight-school.html\">Discovery<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-01\/u-north-dakota-offers-first-four-year-degree-uav-piloting\">Pop Sci<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=fbdc7301725b24974dd16318fa516cc4&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=fbdc7301725b24974dd16318fa516cc4&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hO6cGqKhlgLMBYPEe0H6IEMhV4M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hO6cGqKhlgLMBYPEe0H6IEMhV4M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hO6cGqKhlgLMBYPEe0H6IEMhV4M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hO6cGqKhlgLMBYPEe0H6IEMhV4M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=iy1_uP0H2dg:iCpwQgNv0VU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/iy1_uP0H2dg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the University of North Dakota thinks that you should spend four years in flight school and then never actually get off the ground. That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re offering a new degree in flying UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. The four-year undergraduate program already enrolled its first 12 students and there&#8217;s even talk of a graduate program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}