After five years of no secure funding, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown, the Federal Aviation Administration is to be correctly funded. US Congress has finally has passed a bill aimed at putting the US aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the skies with unmanned drones.   The bill, which passed the Senate 75-20 yesterday speeds the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology. It also requires the FAA to open U.S. skies to drone flights within four

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