Article 718TM Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

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Story ImageAn 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 National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions....

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