Domesticating Drones

Henry H. Perritt, Jr is a Professor of Law and former Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, which he served as Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for the Downtown Campus from 1997 to 2002. He is a private helicopter and airplane pilot. Mr Perritt received his bachelors of science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, his masters degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 1970, and his juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He worked as an application engineer and senior sales planner for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from 1968 to 1971, and as an application engineer and senior sales planner for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from 1968 to 1971. Mr Perritt has written twenty books and nearly a hundred articles, many of them on administrative law and law and technology. He is a member of the bar of Virginia (inactive), Pennsylvania (inactive), the District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Eliot O. Sprague is a Professional ENG helicopter pilot; Director of Market Development and Commercial Pilot, AM Air Service; and a helicopter flight instructor, Midwestern Helicopter. He is a member of the board of directors of Midwest Helicopter Association. Mr Sprague is a graduate of Hillsboro Aviation flight school and holds helicopter CFI-I, CFI, and commercial pilot ratings, and a commercial airplane rating. Mr Sprague taught Mr Perritt how to fly helicopters. Together Perritt and Sprague manage Modovolate Aviation, LCC, which conducts drone research, evaluation, demonstration, and education programs. They have co-authored a law review article on drones, to be published by the Vanderbilt Entertainment and Technology Law Journal, and several magazine articles, published within aviation magazines.