All the stories tagged with helicopter
First Texting While Flying Case Linked To Deadly Commercial Crash
04/08/2013, Texting while driving may be two activities that we all can agree shouldn’t mix, especially if you’re driving a school bus or if you’re double-texting with a baby and drugs in your vehicle. But we think texting while flying is probably even [...]
MeCam Quadcopter : The People’s Drone
02/12/2013, San Francisco based Always Innovating is in the process of creating MeCam, a camera that will fly and follow you wherever you want to go. The MeCam is a quadcopter is fitted with a tiny digital camera and as such, [...]
Hirobo One-Man Helicopter Is Battery Powered
11/20/2012, I don’t know about you, but if you were to stake my life by getting me on board a one-man helicopter that runs on just battery power alone, I would think more than just twice. After all, electric power for [...]
Gamera human-powered helicopter can hover for almost a minute, poised to win Sikorsky Prize
06/22/2012, Students from the University of Maryland were able to successfully hover its human-powered helicopter. The Gamera is a pedal-powered helicopter that hopes to win the AHS Sikorsky Prize. In honor of helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky, the AHS Sikorsky Prize will [...]
Dead pet cat turned into flying helicopter
06/05/2012, Is it me, or are strange stuff starting to appear right above our heads in more recent times? First, we talked about a scaled down version of a helicopter that has been placed upside down right on your ceiling, where [...]
ShadowHawk helicopter tases targets from above
08/21/2011, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that carry weapons are not just meant for the baddies in the war zone – they will soon see action in local airspace, although the form of the UAV would be very different from the models [...]
iPhone-controlled Griffin HELO TC Helicopter now available
08/17/2011, It looks like you and your kids won’t have much trouble looking for a remote-controlled helicopter toy this season. After iRemoco announced that its copters are now on sale, it looks like Griffin has decided to follow suit as well. [...]
iRemoco iPhone-controlled helicopter now on sale
08/16/2011, After successfully funding its first batch of iPhone-controlled helicopters, and shipping them out to over 200 backers of its Kickstarter project, the folks over at iRemoco are now making the iRemoco helicopter available to the public. The company has just [...]
Shadowhawk mini-copter is an RC copter to be feared
07/29/2011, When somebody mentions a remote controlled helicopter, “lethal” is probably one of the last things that will come to mind. But if you’re staring at the Shadowhawk, you’ll probably be thinking other wise. After three years of development, the folks [...]
Pilot does insane tricks with a helicopter
05/20/2011, If you thought that helicopters can only be agile when they are remote controlled toys, this news report will make you think again. A bored helicopter pilot in Siberia seemed to have run out of things to do and spent [...]
Eurocopter EC145 Benz-inspired luxury helicopter flies you around in style
05/17/2011, Eurocopter first unveiled the EC145 Mercedes-Benz style multi-purpose helicopter concept last year at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva. And now, after a year of hard work, Eurocopter has completed work on the helicopter and is [...]
Sikorsky X2 Raider attack helicopter
11/03/2010, Remember Airwolf (and its rival TV series, Blue Thunder back in the 1980s)? Well, fiction might have just become fact at last, with the Sikorsky X2 Raider attack helicopter being prepared for action at the moment. Touted to be almost [...]
KOAX X-240 helicopter design hails from Switzerland
09/14/2010, Check out this conceptual KOAX X-240 helicopter from Swiss designers. Coming in the all-white shade, it looks super sleek regardless of your viewing angle. You won’t be able to go out for a joyride on this since it will be [...]
