TESTIMONIALS
What Leaders Are Saying
Future Flight is inspiring conversations among innovators, educators, and industry executives. These testimonials highlight the book’s relevance and momentum.
TESTIMONIALS
"Grounded in research and written with exceptional clarity, Future Flight is essential reading for policymakers, educators, industry leaders, and innovators. Sharon Rossmark effectively connects innovation, workforce development, manufacturing, and policy and how each offers a practical vision for the future of uncrewed aviation."
—Dr. Lori Paluti, CEO Pittsburgh Drone Services, LLC
"Future Flight is the clarion call we fail to heed at our own peril. The book succinctly summarizes the current state of the UAS/AAM industry - from a policy, technical and academic perspective - and clearly lays out the challenges hurtling towards us. Most importantly, it provides a straightforward guide for actions needed today to prepare for our rapidly approaching future. This book should be required reading for everyone in aviation today."
—Loretta Alkalay
"This book is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of uncrewed aviation. Drawing on Sharon’s leadership as CEO of a drone company, her influential work with the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Committee, and her deep commitment to developing future talent, it offers a timely and authoritative primer on the industry. With clarity and candor, Sharon examines both the promise and the challenges of uncrewed operations from workforce shortages and manufacturing demands to investment priorities and the regulatory urgency required to scale this transformative sector."
—Marilyn Pearson, Retired, FAA
"A concisely written deep dive into the US - UAV quagmire: a very different landscape than Europe but with similar consequences. Well written and easy to digest. Nice work Sharon."
—Ian Kiely, Drone Space | Ireland
“Sharon Rossmark has been a visionary leader in the uncrewed aviation industry since 2015, tirelessly expanding the talent pipeline and elevating voices that strengthen our ecosystem. In Future Flight, she brings together the critical elements of workforce, manufacturing, investment, and policy into a compelling roadmap for America’s leadership in uncrewed aviation.
Her insights reflect both deep expertise and years of hands‑on industry engagement, making this essential reading for executives, policymakers, educators, and anyone committed to building a competitive and resilient U.S. drone ecosystem.”
—Dr. Tulinda Larsen, Chief Transportation Economist, NEXA Advisors
“Future Flight masterfully connects the dots between technology, workforce, manufacturing, and investment, showing how each is essential to ensuring that the uncrewed aviation industry can meet its growth potential and remain competitive. I was especially impressed by its honest assessment of the workforce gap and the urgent need for coordinated action across education, policy, and business. Sharon Rossmark's clear, actionable insights make this a must-read for anyone invested in the future of aviation and economic development. Having been in the drone arena for more than 16 years, I am personally inspired by the unlimited opportunities and societal benefits ahead, driven by both solutions to current challenges and boundless innovations for uncrewed and autonomous aviation.”
—Sabrina F. Saunders-Hodge, Retired FAA UAS/AAM Research Director
Global and industry-focused.
Although grounded in the United States, Future Flight addresses challenges that every developing drone economy must confront: building skilled people, securing resilient supply chains, attracting long-term funding and creating regulation that enables real-world operations. Sharon Rossmark has captured the uncomfortable truth facing our industry. The technology is advancing rapidly, and the institutions, workforce and wider industry surrounding it must now catch up.
—Kim James, Director, UAV Aerial Works | South Africa
"I've always appreciated your ability to connect evolving technology with the bigger picture, and the book does exactly that. As a workforce innovation advisor, I especially value that this book looks beyond advances in autonomy and asks the questions that will ultimately determine our success. Leadership in uncrewed aviation won't come from innovation alone, it will require intentional investments in talent, manufacturing, policy, and a coordinated national strategy. This book provides a thoughtful framework for understanding where the industry is headed and what it will take to lead in an increasingly autonomous world."
—Dr. Renee Welch, Workforce Innovation Advisor
"Sharon Rossmark has written the book the uncrewed aviation industry didn't know it needed. Future Flight refuses the easy framing of drones as a technology story and reveals the harder truth: talent, capital, and manufacturing are one system, and America is trying to win by working them in separate rooms. Rossmark names the gaps most of the debate skips, the maintenance technicians we haven't trained, the mass-market drone we don't build, and the capital that flows everywhere except where it's needed most and then does the harder thing, showing how the pieces connect. Clear-eyed, urgent, and genuinely useful, this is a strategy, not a slogan, and a map for anyone who wants the U.S. to lead this era rather than watch it land somewhere else."
—Angi English, Executive Education Program, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School
There are many voices claiming to have an objective and genuinely comprehensive understanding of the world's uncrewed aviation sector, but very few actually do. Sharon Rossmark is one of the few due to her years of tireless advocacy for the group aviation (and tech industries) have long struggled to include, women, not just across the USA but across all countries. She has built a priceless global network of men and women in the drone industry whose reach is second to none.
There is nobody else who could have written such a thoroughly researched, unbiased, carefully considered and eloquently presented book — and with solutions. This work is the result of years of her measured, objective approach to recognising problems and formulating successful solutions.
Sharon's warning about the failure to implement coordinated student programmes to secure the employee pipeline is the most urgent message in the book, and one every country should heed. Drones are a recognised steppingstone into a multitude of tech-related careers, yet all “developed” countries have failed, to various degrees, to think and act with the long term in mind. Consequently, these countries are now being leapfrogged by up-and-coming nations with younger, less hidebound and more ambitious populations.
Sharon's book is a must-read for anyone invested in the future of their country's economy (and, by extension, its society and environmental health) and the living standards of generations to come. It is not just a book about the USA, or just about the drone industry, technology is the future, and the principles discussed apply to every country. The countries with the brightest future are those that heed this book's message, and act.
—Fiona Lake, Drone Educator, Rural Drone Academy | Australia
"Nailed it!"
—Patrice M.
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