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Want a Bell 206-B with some history? Look no further. Police seized this Jet Ranger recently that was being used to ferry drugs over the Canadian / US border. Investigators reportedly had their eye on the helicopter since September of 2007 during their drug trafficking investigations. It had been stored at various rural locations during [...]
Sikorsky Aircraft has injected a billion-dollars into a new business venture called Sikorsky Innovations. What’s their first goal? To get the pilot out of the Black Hawk. They want to apply the same technologies used in smaller UAVs to the 20,000lb full size helicopter while speeding the transformation from mechanical to computerized. They plan to [...]
Staff at the Community Hospital in New Port Richey, Florida noticed a suspicious man wandering around the facilities early Saturday. He was asked to leave but apparently didn’t. When police arrived they found the 26-year-old (reported as 36 in another article) man sitting inside of one of the Bayflite medical helicopters. He was in the [...]
