Paco Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/09/corp_littlebird_09_20_12.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Pig Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Any discussion or mention of unmanned helicopters should be banned from this site Furthermore..... an unmanned 500, 530 or anything that remotely resembles one is just sacrilegious and is against nature ! Edited September 21, 2012 by Flying Pig 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary-mike Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Where's the "dislike" button. Edited September 21, 2012 by gary-mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethisbike Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 I remember seeing that a while ago when they were still teaching it how to hover and recognize boxes as buildings, avoid them, land on them, you name it. It's pretty cool. Buuuuuttt......I'm pretty sure that's how everyone felt about SkyNet when they started building robots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroscout Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 Any discussion or mention of unmanned helicopters should be banned from this site Furthermore..... an unmanned 500, 530 or anything that remotely resembles one is just sacrilegious and is against nature !I agree wholeheartedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobsyouruncle Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 At this point unmanned helicopters are like gas powered butter knives. They have created a product to fill a need that nobody actually needs. The military is quite proud of its unmanned drone that can air drop pallets of water and will tell you how safe it is. Thing is, that job was never dangerous to begin with. And a pilot still has to start it Make a helicopter that can do a dust landing at night to a hot LZ marked by a chemlight and they can save pilots lives. But they can't do that. The only job I can see this helicopter being useful for is doing something like flying tours on predetermined routes and known landing areas. So I guess if a tour company decides to buy a helicopter that costs 50 million dollars we'll all be in trouble. Maybe one day this technology will become useful, but I'm pretty sure it's a ways off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turboshaft Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 UAVs offer jobs for pilots, so long as you don't mind flying a desk. The USAF's outgoing chief of staff has admitted that it's “conceivable” the service could eventually have more UAV pilots than manned aircraft pilots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Pig Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 Fortunately, a lot of helicopter operations involve taking PEOPLE places. I think we are at least a generation (if not more) away from people getting on a robot. Who knows maybe not.....Maybe some naive people will. Personally, I want a pilot/crew who is as equally vested in the outcome of a successful flight as I am. Not some engineer sitting in an office hitting "CNTRL -ALT- DELETE" as fast as he can while I plummet to the ground 2000 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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