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Watch Video: U.S New Transportation Secretary: “Whether it’s with drones,  autonomous vehicles or eVTOLs … We are in a race to beat the rest of the world!” 

The swear­ing-in of the new Repub­li­can U.S Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary, Sean Duffy, this week, has brought opti­mism and hope for the eVTOL and Drone indus­try after his pos­i­tive com­ments about its future.

At the cer­e­mo­ny Duffy stat­ed, “I think we’re at an amaz­ing time because when you think of the Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, you don’t think of inno­va­tion. (Yet) we are in one of the most inno­v­a­tive spaces, I think, in gov­ern­ment. We are going to ush­er in a gold­en age…” 

He con­tin­ued, “Whether it’s with drones or autonomous vehi­cles or eVTOLs or ‘Ubers in the air,’ anoth­er term for them. We are in a race to beat the rest of the world and it is crit­i­cal to make sure we have rules in place to make Amer­i­ca the best home for this inno­va­tion.”

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53 year-old Sean Patrick Duffy has a colour­ful back­ground. He holds two speed-climb­ing titles; has nine chil­dren with wife Rachel; is a for­mer real­i­ty TV star; an ESPN com­men­ta­tor; was a com­peti­tor on the channel’s ‘Great Out­door Games’; co-host­ed a Fox Busi­ness Show, ‘The Bot­tom Line’; leav­ing aside a grow­ing polit­i­cal career.

Start­ing in 2002, as an Ash­land Dis­trict Attor­ney, Duffy was on the Repub­li­can slate of the 10 Wis­con­sin elec­tors for the 2008 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. He resigned as Attor­ney in 2010 and was then elect­ed to Con­gress.

Potomac Riv­er Air Crash (Cred­it: AFP)

Less than a day after the swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny, Duffy had to respond from the FAA Head­quar­ters to the trag­ic Potomac Riv­er Mid-Air Col­li­sion. He imme­di­ate­ly instruct­ed an inves­ti­ga­tion to be opened into the cause of the crash and ordered his depart­ment to “pro­vide full sup­port to the NTSB and all respond­ing agen­cies and author­i­ties.” 

Talk about a bap­tism by fire.

(Top image: Sean Patrick Duffy)

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