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    Piasecki Helicopter was a helicopter manufacturer from 1940 to 1960. Frank Piasecki founded the company. Frank Piasecki built one of the first helicopters to ever fly in the United States. The company change names many times during Helicopter production and in 1956, it was changed toVertol (Vertical take-off and landing) Aircraft Corp. Boeing bought the company in 1960 and renamed it to Boing Vertol. The US Army in conjunction with Boeing Corporation began a project in the 1960’s where they develop

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    EMS Helicopter Pilot

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    the wreckage. However, few have ever seen a truly horrific, heavily gory accident in which a Medivac helicopter has come to rush victims off to safety. Air-medical transport saves lives every day in a plethora of situations. Being a part of the Hawaii Air Ambulance team allows one to be the best pilot they could be in a field whose purpose is saving lives. To be an Emergency Response helicopter pilot requires an extensive amount of skills, certifications and experience. One must have good concentration

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    Are You Safer Without a Pilot? System Safety Design in a UAV Construct The Gradual Move from Manned to Unmanned Flight According to James Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airlines, “A pilotless airliner is going to come; it’s just a question of when. You’ll see it in freighters first, over water probably, landing very close to the shore.” (Ross, 2011, p. 38) The trend toward aircraft without pilots is not new. As technology has improved the number of crew members and their responsibilities

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    The year was 2026, the time was 5:03 pm, it was 14-year-old, Max Fleisher’s 365th day stranded on a small patch of sand in the pacific. Right about now Max could remember the feeling of his mom rubbing her hands through his luscious, slightly gelled, curly, lengthy blonde hair, then, him staring down his little sister Mel with his piercing green eyes and him telling his father he loved him for the very last time. The miserable day crossed Max’s mind once again, the day he lost his whole family in

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    My company Acme Airborne Analysis Group has tasked me with assessing the impacts of using a quad rotor UAS to support We Sell Anything real estate's marketing campaign of local lake front property. The technical, legal, and ethical challenges will be analyzed. The technical challenges We Sell Anything will face will include buying the quad rotor UAS and support equipment, and purchasing a high definition camera. I would recommend the DJI Phantom 3 Professional with the upgraded “Everything you

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    developed, on paper, the ornithopter flying machine that many say inspired the modern day helicopter. Fast forward four-hundred years and we see Igor Sikorsky, who is considered to be the father of helicopters given that he is the first person to construct the first successful helicopter. Sikorsky would pave the way upon which the future design of many helicopters would be built. By the 1950's, the helicopter played an integral role in American aviation. No other mode of transportation could rival

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    maneuverable video and photography at the touch of a button. If you have been paying attention, one of the latest crazes in advertisement is aerial videography. At first, you many wonder how they would get helicopters into such tight places to acquire the footage you are viewing. Well, it’s not a helicopter that is being utilized; it’s a Quad Copter Drone. These unique remote controlled devices are taking the world by storm, being utilized as everything from a hobby to an intricate aerial photography

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    Drones Artifact

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    Agricultural drones 2a.Agricultural drones are unmanned aerial vehicles that are used for soil and field analysis. They can produce accurate 3D maps that can conduct soil analysis on numerous soil properties. The goal of precision agriculture or drones is to more efficiently apply a farm’s limited resources to gain maximum yield (Nixon). They can also irrigate crops and analyze crops, deciding which are healthy and which are not more effectively than farmers. My artifact conveys the function of these

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    (VTOL), simplicity in its mechanical configuration and ease of maintenance. In addition, the use of four small propellers in quadcopter reduces the danger posed by the propellers if it touches external object as compared with one big propeller in helicopter or airplane \citep{Nemati}. One of the quadcopter types that gains growing attention is the racing or high speed quadcopters due to their wide range of applications in surveillance, search, rescue, fire fighting, UAV based delivery, and other similar

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    that are taken from a high point or elevated location. It captures different subjects from a completely new perspective, thereby producing shots that are great and unique. Aerial photographs are taken from an aircraft such as drones, balloons, helicopters, parachutes, satellites, kites, etc. Why Use Aerial Photography? Aerial photography can be a challenging yet rewarding experience because it can give you spectacular and memorable aerial photos that are different from terrestrial photographs.

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