Written by
Dabney B. on
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Drones are known as unmanned aerial vehicles, but exactly how unmanned are they? It’s something of a misnomer. Drones may not have a pilot onboard, but they nonetheless rely on input from human specialists. At most, a single drone could ...
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Dabney B. on
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
We like to call those pilot-less aircraft zipping around the skies nowadays "drones" but the original term for these gadgets were UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles. I bring that up because I want to emphasize the "unmanned" portion of UAVs. Calling ...
Written by
Dabney B. on
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Helicopters are a common sight in many places throughout the world. They're used to transport important people, catch news footage, pursue criminals in high-speed chases, and airlift injured people to hospitals -- and that's in addition to the thousands of ...
Written by
Dabney B. on
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Amid all of the incredibly high-tech, advanced aircraft in the US Air Force, it's easy to lose sight of the basics. Flying, which was once a marvel of human ingenuity, is now something that's taken for granted. Most Americans have ...
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