Articles for tag drones and HAA
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Aug
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2026
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Posted by Admin
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Twenty-six years ago, I remember being in the cockpit of my S76C+ HEMS helicopter and marveling at the technology I had at my fingertips: twin FADEC engines, glass cockpit, and a four-axis autopilot. The helicopter could literally fly itself better than me. We still didn’t have NVGs, TAWS, HUMS, CVR, and all the other acronyms that would equate to aviation advancement like nothing our industry has ever seen.
Even though terms like uncrewed, drone, and UAS were not part of our vernacular back then, I remember having philosophical conversations with crewmembers around the lunch table pontificating on how someday, there would be computerized, unmanned aircraft that would be able to do our work, and most often, those conversations ended with, “That’ll never happen.”
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