Ohio airport gets radar equipment to help drone research

A southwest Ohio airport has received mobile radar equipment to help with research on drones.The Springfield News-Sun reports the equipment at the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport came through state and federal grants.An official with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton says the equipment will be used to test beyond line of sight operation of the unmanned aircraft.Currently drones can only be flown in the line of sight of the pilots. Researchers