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Will This Helicopter Truck Fly?
The Black Knight TransformerAdvanced TacticsIt's a lot easier to "leave no man behind" when the rescue crew is robotic. Advanced Tactics, an El Segundo-based firm, plans to test a remotely operated,...
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NYPD Flew Helicopter At Drone, Not Vice Versa, Recording Confirms
NYPD helicopter patrolling New York CityRefueled Dot Net, via Wikimedia CommonsPhoto taken from the Empire State Building Observatory.Earlier this week, the New York Police Department arrested two men...
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Russia Orders Helicopters For Its New Amphibious Assault Ships
Russian Ka-52 Attack HelicopterAlex Beltyukov, via Wikimedia CommonsRussia recently ordered a batch of new attack helicopters, including 32 that could go onto a new amphibious assault ship. There's...
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Vertical Takeoff Plane Design Flies Three Times Faster Than Helicopters
"XV-58 Manta" design by students at the Georgia Institute of TechnologyAHS International ImageDoes this illustration look a little sci-fi to you? It should: It's a design for a plane that takes off...
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New Military Helicopter Can Cruise At 253 MPH
The Raider As UnveiledSikorskySikorsky’s S-97 Raider looks like the future. Not the distant future -- not the “Star Trek” future -- but a closer, more attainable future. Its design is based primarily...
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Watch This Drone Helicopter Take Off At Sea
Fire Scout BJrfreeland, via Wikimedia CommonsThis is the smaller sibling of the full-sized Fire Scout C featured in the video below.The Fire Scout C’s smooth, gray body is a mockery of helicopter form....
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Army Plans The War Helicopters Of Tomorrow
Army Concept For Future HelicopterU.S. Army graphic by AMRDEC VizLabMoving an army is no easy task, and it’s even harder when that army wants to travel by air. Working with NASA and the U.S. Navy, the...
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Soon You'll Be Able To Buy A Tiltrotor Aircraft
AW609 Tiltrotor In FlightAgusta-WestlandFor years the military's V-22 Osprey had a monopoly on the ability to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane. Now, thanks to...
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Watch TV Station Helicopter Pilots Track Down A Drone [video]
KATU News CopterStuart.Mike via FlickrCC BY 2.0Drones and helicopters are already sharing the same sky. Last Monday, while covering a fire at a salvage yard, a news helicopter from Seattle’s KIRO-TV...
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Watch This Superfast Raider Helicopter Take Its First Flight
S-97 Raider In Flight On Its First FlightSikorksyEarly this morning in West Palm Beach, Florida, a brand-new helicopter took its first flight. Made by Sikorsky, the S-97 Raider is designed as a future...
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The V-280 Valor Will Be The Most Versatile Aircraft In The Sky
V-280Bell HelicopterFuture conflicts will favor faster, nimbler military forces—think precision strikes and special ops. “The military needs assets that allow them to project their combat power more...
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DARPA Put Robot Legs On A Helicopter Drone
DARPA MAR LanderScreenshot by author, from YouTubeIf takeoffs and landings are the trickiest parts of flight, then landing at sea, especially in choppy weather, is quite possibly the hardest landing...
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Mars 2020 Rover May Have A Little Flying Helper Drone
Artist's concept for a drone scout on MarsNASA/JPL-CaltechIn April 2009, the Spirit rover got stuck in a sand trap on Mars. Try as it might, its wheels couldn't gain enough traction in the loose sand...
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Drones And Helicopters Team Up To Scout Targets In Iraq
Military Shadow scouts Drone helicopter team work.
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Is The Navy Going To Replace Its Helicopters With This Punchy Aircraft?
Military The Army is already planning on it Navy might buy army helicopter…
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Solar-Powered Helicopter Takes Flight
From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News A breakthrough design from student inventors A team of undergraduates at the University of Maryland pulled off the first-ever piloted flight of a solar-powered...
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This Cop Turned A Helicopter Into An Amphibious Racecar
DIY A custom chopper-pontoon-racecar Jeff Bloch, a novelty-car builder and D.C. police officer, turned a junked helicopter into an amphibious racecar.
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Beyond The J-20: The Many Planes Of China
From Our Blogs: Eastern Arsenal The 2016 Zhuhai Airshow features new bombers, marsupial drones, and much more Zhuhai 2016 shows off a wide array of Chinese combat aircraft, not just the J-20 stealth...
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Meet the armored soldiers and nuclear artillery of a future war that never was
Military Wars of future past. A concept for soldiers from 1956 guesses at the future in an interesting way.
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Here's the high-speed racer Airbus just announced
Aviation Building on the success of the X3 demonstrator, its Racer boasts a 248 mph cruise speed. Building on the success of the X3 demonstrator, its Racer boasts a 248 mph cruise speed. Read on.
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