Versatile, yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited

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Versatile, Yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited

When it comes to aviation curiosities, few machines captivate the imagination like the Fairey Rotodyne. This British hybrid aircraft was a daring attempt to combine helicopter and fixed-wing effici…

Hackaday Links: December 15, 2024

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Hackaday Links: December 15, 2024

It looks like we won’t have Cruise to kick around in this space anymore with the news that General Motors is pulling the plug on its woe-beset robotaxi project. Cruise, which GM acquired in 2…

NASA’s Interplanetary Accident Probe - Arriving at probable cause from 100 million miles away.

NASA scientists are close to completing the first-ever accident investigation on another planet. Engineers from NASA’s Southern California Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with AeroVironment, will publish a report on the final flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in the coming weeks.

#AVweb #news #Ingenuity #Mars #helicopter

NASA's Interplanetary Accident Probe

Arriving at probable cause from 100 million miles away.

Start the chopper

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#1Euro #start #helicopter #lol #rippedoff?

A Look Back at the USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

#history #transportationhacks #commercialairtravel #helicopter #sovietunion #hackaday
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A Look Back At The USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

Most of us would equate commercial airline travel with fixed-wing aircraft, but civilian transport by helicopter, especially in large and sparsely populated regions, is common enough. It was once e…

Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024

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Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024

When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society…

Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas

#science #aerial #electromagneticsurvey #geology #geomagnetic #geomagneticsurvey #helicopter #usgs #hackaday
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Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas

Helicopters are perhaps at their coolest when they’re being used as flying cranes — from a long dangling cable, they can carry everything from cars, to crates, to giant hanging saws. Wh…

The first photos of the helicopter wreckage with rescue crews combing through the debris.

They managed to reach the wreckage almost 17 hours after the crash due to severe weather conditions (rain and fog) and hard to reach mountainous areas.

All crew and passengers of the helicopter including IRI president Reisi, The foreign minister Abdollahian with governor of East Azerbaijan province and the head of Friday prayers of Tabriz were among them.

3 crew and 2 IRGC members of president's security team were also among those who were killed during the crash.

#Iran #EbrahimReisi #Politics #HelicopterCrash #Azerbaijan #Helicopter #News

A picture of the flight crew of the #IRI president's helicopter

Pilot Colonel Seyed Taher Mostafavi (middle)

Pilot Colonel Mohsen Daryanosh (right)

Behrouz Qadimi Technical Major (left)

#Iran #News #Helicopter #Reisi #Politics

Iranian drones have located a heat source that can be the remains of the crashed Iranian #helicopter carrying the #president and the foreign minister of I#RI

#Iran #Azerbaijan

The IRI president's helicopter has been found

Minutes ago, the operational teams sent to the place reached the crashed helicopter of the president and his accompanying delegation after hours of searching.!

بالگرد رئیس جمهور پیدا شد

▫️دقایقی پیش تیم‌های عملیاتی اعزام شده به محل پس از ساعت ها جستجو به بالگرد سانحه دیده رئیس جمهور و هیات همراه رسیدند.
#Iran #News #Helicopter #Reisi #Azeebaijan #News

Last picture of the #helicopter carrying #IRI president #Reisi before it crashed into the mountains of eastern #Azerbaijan province of #Iran.

Special forces of the Iranian Army and the #IRGC have arrived in the #helicopter's #crash area to conduct night time searches

#Iran #Reisi #IRI #Politics

#IRI military and #IRGC have deployed special forces in the search for the crashed #helicopter of IRI president #Reisi

#Iran

Conspiracy theorists are quick to come up with blame game of #Reisi's #helicopter #crash.

#Iran #News #IRI #Politics #News #Breaking

A helicopter with IRI president Reisi went down shortly after lift up in Azerbaijan province of north western Iran.

The bad weather is making the rescue operation difficult.

Hopefully he didn't survive the crash.

#Iran #Reisi #Accident #Helicopter #IRI #Reisi

3D Print a Drill-Powered Helicopter Toy Because It’s Simply Fun

#3dprinterhacks #3dprinter #heli #helitoy #helicopter #toy #hackaday
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3D Print A Drill-Powered Helicopter Toy Because It’s Simply Fun

These days, you can get a fully remote-control helicopter that you can fly around your house for about $30. Maybe less. Back in the day, kids had to make do with far simpler toys, like spinning dis…

Another American Apache #Helicopter has crashed in Syria, the 3rd crash in just 72 hours

8 #Apaches have crashed in Syria just this year alone, which they claim is in training.

PS. Supporting #ISIS in #Syria is expensive!

An AgustaWestland AW139 #medevac #helicopter on standby in #Ottawa today.

#aviation #aircraft #flying

Tail caught

#gif #helicopter