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The A-160 "Hummingbird": the first helicopter without a pilot

Washington, USA - Tuned by Boeing, it will go in production in two years

In the last generation of remote-control UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), a new helicopter was born, the A-160 "Hummingbird", a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project which has undergone trials for some years and tuned at US Boeing research center, Phantom Works. 10 meters and a half long, the A-160 has a six-cylinders 300hp internal combustion Subaru engine and a three-bladed rotor...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 136662
Rome, Italy, 02/28/2006 18:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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