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Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M
An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands 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 ...
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 ...
He served in the Vietnam War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He rescued more than 100 during the Blizzard of 1993. And, he ...
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.
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.
The jets will fly off assembly lines through the mid-2030s as Saab and Boeing fulfill their contract with the U.S. Air Force.
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.
Sikorsky said on Thursday that for the first time a U.S. Army soldier has used its autonomous Black Hawk to conduct a series ...
The OPV Black Hawk showed off new abilities to drop cargo by parachute, move sling-loads, and carry out medical evacuation ...
China’s next-generation trainer, built by HAIG, finally emerged and performed its maiden flight. After much anticipation, China’s next-generation trainer ...
Turkey has signed a long-anticipated £8 billion ($11 billion) deal to acquire Eurofighter Typhoons, the first major export ...
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