Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command ...
He became the first to independently plan, command and execute one of the missions using the system’s handheld tablet.
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Regular soldier flies remote-control Black Hawk chopper – after an hour’s training
A regular soldier has flown a remote-control Black Hawk helicopter after less than an hour’s training. A U.S. Army National ...
TRU Simulation + Training Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, and an affiliate of Bell Textron Inc., today announced the SUBARU Bell 412EPX Flight Training Device (FTD) has received Level 5 ...
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From flying cars to jetpacks: How close are humans to commuting in the sky?
Most of today’s personal flying vehicles fall under the category of EVTOLs (Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft).
An off-the-cuff decision to practice an advanced manoeuvre during a training session preceded a helicopter crash on Queensland’s Pannikin Island in February, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has ...
An R22 helicopter was conducting unplanned and unnecessary torque turns at a low height during a commercial pilot licence ...
The UK’s Metropolitan Police Service is deploying UAS to London in a new trial hoping to provide police officers with a new intelligence gathering ...
A U.S. soldier was put in charge of planning and executing missions with the Optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter instead of a trained aviator.
The OPV Black Hawk showed off new abilities to drop cargo by parachute, move sling-loads, and carry out medical evacuation ...
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