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 ...

This US soldier amazingly was able to remotely fly a Black Hawk Helicopter – after receiving just one hour of training. The National Guard First Class Sergeant became the first soldier who ...

He became the first to independently plan, command and execute one of the missions using the system’s handheld tablet.

A regular soldier has flown a remote-control Black Hawk helicopter after less than an hour’s training. A U.S. Army National ...

He served in the Vietnam War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He rescued more than 100 during the Blizzard of 1993. And, he ...

An “early” call will be made to procure a replacement jet to be used by the Royal Navy and RAF - with a Gosport deal in the ...

Among those beginning training are pilots new or returning to the Red Arrows ... weeks of being with the Red Arrows had included converting back to flying the Hawk – an aircraft many of the pilots ...

In a training first, an Army National Guardsman used a tablet to control Sikorsky's optionally piloted Black Hawk and plan its task during an exercise.

First and foremost, this is about a truly unique milestone — an untrained soldier, after less than an hour of instruction, successfully completed a full logistics mission using an optionally piloted B ...

A US Army soldier has become the first non-aviator to independently plan and execute missions using Sikorsky's optionally piloted UH-60 Black Hawk demonstrator in training exercises.

It took less than an hour for a National Guard soldier with no past aviation experience to train to remotely fly a Black Hawk helicopter.