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Video captures US military aircraft accidentally wrecking a UK hospital helipad during a training exercise
Emergency medical flights had to be temporarily redirected to a nearby airport after the helipad at…
Ryan Pickrell
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Marine Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in Australia just finished another flight across the Pacific
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII - US Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Darwin completed a trans-Pacific…
1st Lt. Colin Kennard, US Marine Corps
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Bell's new tilt-rotor combat drone aims to give Marines even more combat power - here's what it can do
"As of June 2018, the mission sets for these aircraft are, in priority order, are airborne early wa…
Daniel Brown
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A mid-air error led NASA's Mars helicopter to tilt wildly back and forth in its latest flight - but it landed safely
Ingenuity lost just one navigation photo, but that made it tilt back and forth in the air on the wa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aria Bendix
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This Tilt-Wing Aircraft Could Be The Future Of The US Army's Helicopter Fleet
But in 2010, the Army's program executive officer for aviation envisioned a new "joint multirole he…
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3 Marines were killed and 20 injured after a US helicopter crashed on a training exercise in northern Australia
Five Marines are in a serious condition in hospital after the MV-22 Osprey crashed during a trainin…
Ryan Hogg
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US Air Force special operators' search for new runways is expanding from highways to beaches
The US Air Force has been looking at "every single piece of concrete in the Pacific" to find new ru…
Christopher Woody
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Flying taxis could take to the skies by next year. Here's why the aviation industry is so excited about eVTOLs.
Flying-taxi companies such as Archer and AutoFlight hope to change the daily commute with electric …
Pete Syme
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A broken-down US Air Force special ops aircraft stuck in an Arctic nature preserve is finally out after a 'demanding' rescue
Norway's military said engineers had to build an improvised road to recover the $90 million CV-22 O…
Jake Epstein
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The not-quite-aircraft-carriers that the US Navy and other militaries use to carry jets, tanks, and troops into battle
Amphibious assault ships and helicopter carriers allow smaller navies to flex muscles that usually …
Benjamin Brimelow
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Here's what it took to move a broken-down US special ops aircraft stuck in an Arctic nature preserve just over 50 feet
Norway's military said bad weather has delayed the recovery of the CV-22 Osprey, but it hopes to re…
Jake Epstein
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New photos show a US special ops aircraft stuck in a Norwegian nature preserve while the military works out how to get it back
The CV-22 aircraft has been stuck among "protected ferns and salamanders" for a month, the head of …
Jake Epstein,Christopher Woody
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Marines in this aircraft squadron deploy and fly with a big stuffed tiger named Tyreese
Tyreese, who has his own flight goggles and headset, is part of tradition going back almost seven d…
Ryan Pickrell
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just flew sideways over the Martian surface in its second aerial adventure
Ingenuity is moving fast after its first flight. Future attempts will go further and faster as NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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US Air Force commandos trained to rescue other troops are getting used to a 'way more difficult' environment in the Pacific
The jungle is "very unforgiving" and US commandos "need to be ready for that," a US Air Force speci…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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One of the military's most common infiltration methods is a risky maneuver no matter who's doing it
Fast-roping is a convenient and effective way to insert troops quickly, but it has inherent dangers.
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The real reasons we don't have flying cars
We've seen examples of flying cars, but they still aren't available to buy. We break down why road-…
Daniel Gessner
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NASA's Ingenuity team is planning to push the helicopter as fast and far as it will go - even if it crashes
The Ingenuity team aims to push the space drone to the extremes. They don't expect it to survive, t…