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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It's probably been a dream of yours forever, and one company is turning it into a reality by creating the world's first hoverbike. Aerofex, has a proof of concept prototype aircraft that seems to be a cross between a bicycle, jet ski, and hovercraft. The team performed their first flight back in December 2008, and ended up finding "plenty of stability," but no control, as the craft ended up on a tumble-weed. However, after multiple...

LONDON, November 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the 11th annual London conference for global military forces, Defence IQ heralds an opportunity for industry, personnel and programme managers to learn and analyse recent progress in the field with an exclusive new resource centre available online. As the prestigious International Military Helicopter conference prepares to take off for its eleventh successive run, organisers have unveiled a website media archive...

- Augmented Visionics System designed to enable safer helicopter operations in near-zero visibility MONTREAL, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - (NYSE: CGT; TSX: CAE) - CAE and Neptec Design Group today announced the successful demonstration of Neptec's Obscurant Penetrating Autosynchronous LIDAR (OPAL) sensor that is integrated into CAE's Augmented Visionics System (AVS). CAE's AVS solution is being developed to enable helicopter pilots to operate safely in the most extreme...

STRATFORD, Conn., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the successful demonstration of technology designed to enable safer helicopter landings in blinding conditions including brownouts. Sikorsky and its Sandblaster project teammates, including Honeywell International and Sierra Nevada Corp., performed the demonstrations at the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD), AMRDEC at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Sikorsky is a...

LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SprayCool(R), a recognized leader in the development of advanced thermal management and environmental isolation products for the military, announced today that one of its electronics enclosures successfully completed its flight test program in brown-out conditions as part of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Helicopter Autonomous Landing System (HALS). The SprayCool liquid-cooled enclosure, mounted on the front of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, is...

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter was destroyed by a hard landing during an operation to hunt down insurgents in Afghanistan, but there were no casualties, the military said on Thursday. The twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook made the hard landing on Wednesday due to "brown-out conditions" as the crew attempted to land forces near the Pakistani border southwest of the town of Spin Boldak, a military statement said. "Hostile fire was not involved," it said. "A fire, which is believed to have...