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0	This Watch Might Have Saved Someone's Life in Vietnam [Watches] Luxury watch makers seem to be caught up in an arms race to include the most exotic materials in their timepieces. From genuine volcanic ash, to metal from the Titanic, to a face stamped from the bodywork ... 0 Published 9 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	On-The-Fly Ammo Swapping Will Make Tomorrow's Apaches Even More Deadly [Guns] Swapping ammo types at the press of a button has been a feature of FPS games for years but has never actually made it into real combat. But the US Army thinks that with recent advances in computerized high... 0 Published 21 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hijacking Panic Sends Terrifying Sonic Booms Over England [Video] A series of unfortunate events: a confused helicopter pilot accidentally gives a signal that he's been hijacked. British RAF fighters are scrambled so quickly to shoot the thing down, they go supersonic. ... 0 Published 41 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Erickson S-64 Aircrane Is a Flying Swiss Army Knife [Video] Most helicopters are one-trick ponies. They perform the thing they're designed for very well and they don't do much more. That's not the case with the Erickson S-64, a versatile, capable vehicle that could... 0 Published 49 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The House that Shrooms Built, Christopher Walken Reads a Book, and the Best Graphics 1986 Could Muster [Video] Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to "toastify." It's time for tonight's Stoner Channel. We've collected our best high-times material for the discerning poth... 0 Published 69 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Helicopter's Blades Transform into Shimmering Halo [Image Cache] Through some sort of optical witchcraft, this Israel Defense Force recon chopper looks pretty magical as the sun sets. More » 0 Published 90 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Two Helicopters Collision Kills Seven Marines Training for Afghanistan [Helicopters] Seven US Marines were killed yesterday night at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, when their helicopters collided in mid-air around 8:00pm. They were training for deployment to Afghanistan, accor... 0 Published 91 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Take a Look at China's New Attack Helicopter [Helicopters] The Chinese continue to upgrade their military to new levels. This is their new attack helicopter, the Z-19, a two-seater painted in badass black that looks a lot like the Eurocopter Dauphin. More ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Helicopters Are About to Get Faster Thanks to Humpback Whale Fins [Helicopters] A helicopter's rotor design may allow for vertical takeoffs but that comes at a price—the backwards moving blade counteracts the helicopter's forward momentum, causing it to stall at high speeds. But... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Mighty United States Air Force Summarized in Two Minutes [Video] The F-22 may have not been a resounding success, but this video gives a good idea of the power of the US Air Force, complete with some pseudo-Wagner(ish) music that makes me want to invade Poland More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Holiday Decorating With a Helicopter Can Be Very Dangerous [Video] You might worry about falling off a ladder while decorating your home with lights, but that pales in comparison to what happened to this helicopter in Auckland while installing a Christmas tree. Thankfull... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Nine Homebrew Helicopters [Video] Helicopters are incredibly difficult to pilot and even tougher to build from scratch—yet these tinkerers were able to construct their own whirly birds and even fly them. Our friends at Oobject. com ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch What the World Might Look Like if You Strapped Yourself to a Helicopter Blade [Video] Rolling shutter effect shots are always cool, but usually used to shoot moving objects, like airplane propellers. What if you stuck the camera on the propeller? You'd get a combination of the view from t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Biggest Helicopter in the Western World [Video] How do you move a 16,000 pound M198 Howitzer, with its crew and ammo, 50 miles over impossible terrain in one night? You get yourself a Super Stallion, the biggest and strongest air pony in the US militar... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Full-Scale, Battery-Powered Helicopter Flight Sets World Record [Helicopters] Pascal Chretien did what famed helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky hasn't yet. He designed, built and flew an untethered, manned electric helicopter. This record-setting flight is like taking your toy remot... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Massive Rotorcraft Named After Japanese Turtle Sets Record in Maryland [Helicopters] When we think about 11.4 seconds, it doesn't really amount to much, but in the world of female human-powered helicopter flight, it's a new record. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	US Says China Photographed Secret Bin Laden Kill-Copter [War] That mostly-intact tail of the top secret stealth helicopter that helped kill Osama? According to US intelligence figures, Pakistan gave China full access as revenge for the raid—including photos, a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Boomerang Drone That's Based on a Maple Seed [Military] How do you make a maple seed cool? Turning it into a state-of-the-art single-wing helicopter drone that soldiers and police officers can carry into the field, and that they launch by hurling it like a boo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs? [Video] The US suffered a tremendous loss Saturday in Afganistan when the downing of a Chinook helicopter took the lives of 31 special forces troops. As Danger Room reports, it may have been an entirely new Talib... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Why Did News Helicopters Hit the Norwegian Island Massacre Before Police? [Terrorism] Amid all the confusion surrounding last week's horrific Norwegian domestic terror attack, one small technical curiosity: how were media helicopters able to catch the criminal at Utøya before police? Aeron... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	No-One Will Know You're Controlling Griffin's Helo TC From Your iPhone [Toys] Costing a damn sight less than the $300 Parrot AR Drone, Griffin's Helo TC helicopter can be flown by an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using a free compatible app. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Cops Scramble Helicopters and Tranquilizer Teams to Take Down Stuffed Tiger [Wtf] GOOD GOD MAN, RUN. RUN QUICKLY! SAVE YOURSELVES, THERE'S A VICIOUS BEAST PROWLING. CALL THE POLICE! CALL THE ZOO! CALL—Wait, what? What'd you say? It's just a stupid stuffed animal? Aw crap. More... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Landing Helicopters at Sea Seems Horribly Hard [Video] I always imagined that landing a moving thing on another moving thing would be pretty hard, but I also thought that helicopters would be easier than airplanes. As these videos demonstrate, I was very wro... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch This Stunt Pilot Shave a Man With a Helicopter [Video] I don't know how practical it is, strictly speaking, to be able to open beer bottles, balance a glass of water, and shave another man's face with the helicopter you're piloting. But man is it fun to watc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Other Black Helicopters [Wtf] We all know that people are the same wherever you go. It's especially true of China's super-wealthy elite, who are just like you and me. Except they fly around on secret private helicopters in complete di... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pakistan Handing Over Lost Stealth Helicopter Tail from Osama Raid [Helicopters] The mission to kill Osama bin Laden went almost perfectly, in that we killed Osama bin Laden. One hitch—we had to blow apart an extremely expensive (and extremely secret) stealth helicopter. And we ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch the Heroic and Crazy Flying Firefighters In Action [Video] Last April, wildfires engulfed 200,000 acres of woods and 150 homes at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas. This spectacular video shows the biggest guns of the Forest Service fighting against the uncontrollable ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	V750 Unmanned Helicopter Can Rival US Counterparts [Aerospace] Shiny and purple. It may look like a baddy chopper from an 80s TV movie made in a Foxconn factory, but it's China's latest flying machine, the V750. And it means the Chinese's aerospace industry is maturi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Is This the Navy's Secret Helicopter? [Unconfirmed] Ever since SEAL Team 6 blew up its downed, stealth Black Hawk, aviation geeks around the globe have been trying to figure out what the hell it was. One flight expert has gathered the clues and created thi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Helicopter Crashes into Kid's Bedroom While Filming Campus PD Episode [Wtf] I love Campus PD! It reminds me of all the best parts of college—moronic guys drinking themselves into stupors, girls sobbing, and classes on Kant. But apparently, the show's creators are jerks: the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	That Downed US Aircraft Was a Secret Stealth Helicopter [Unconfirmed] US Special Forces lost a helicopter in their mission to take down Osama bin Laden. And while previous reports—and a peek at the tail—have so far indicated that it was a Black Hawk MH-60, the l... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Berzerker Black Hawk Helicopter That Helped Kill Osama bin Laden [Monster Machines] Everyone wants to know exactly how the take-out-bin-Laden-operation went down. Part of what we know for sure is that badass Navy SEALs did the shooting, and were carried to the site by another elite team&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Santa Exchanges Rudolph for Black Hawk Helicopter [Video] If you are a kid living at the United States Air Force's Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, Santa Claus doesn't come in a sleigh and goes down chimneys. He uses a HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Stolen iPhone Provokes Aussie Police to Fire Up the Helicopter to Track it by GPS [Apple] Hailing from Australia myself, I know first-hand how slowly life trickles by. "A stolen phone? No worries mate, we'll juzz git the 'elicopter outta the shed, fire 'er up, and chase that drongo down fer ya... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is the Future of Attack Helicopters [Video] This is Sikorsky's new attack helicopter, the X2 Raider. It's based on the 299.2mph X2, but it will be able to carry troops and weapons at extreme altitude. And according to Sikorsky, it's almost as silen... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Watch DARPA's Retractable Rotor Helicopter Concept Redefine Flight [Video] First came the rough sketch of DARPA's DiscRotor, a helicopter whose blades retract into a disc once the craft hits a certain speed. Now we've got the concept video. Which hopefully means we're that much... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Laser Pointer Prank Lands Teen in Federal Prison [Video] 19-year-old Nathan Ramon Wells last year saw a California police helicopter and decided to aim a laser pointer at it, causing the pilot to suddenly change course during a burglary investigation. Now he's ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Missile-Blocking Lasers Will Protect the Army's 'Copters [Lasers] As if lasers needed a public image overhaul! They've suddenly got cooler, now that a Michigan university professor is building only a friggin' missile-blocking laser small enough to be affixed to US Army ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help [Helicopters] In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It's like the kind of flight choppers have m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Simple Photo of a Plane Taking Off...From Head On [Image Cache] How do you possibly snag this shot (without dying in a spectacular fashion)? A bold pilot, an even bolder helicopter pilot, and a Canon 20D with 70–200mm lens. Read the whole tale here: [Air&Space and Mik... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Luxury Mercedes-Benz EC145 Helicopter Looks Good Enough To Live In [Helicopters] It's the ultimate height in personal travel, inspired by Mercedes-Benz's R-Class car series. Unlike their sportscars though, this helicopter can carry eight people in style and has a TV, fridge and requis... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	DSLR-Equipped R/C Helicopter Captures HD Video From the Skies [Awesome Things] Well, this is sweet. It's a remote-controlled helicopter with a Canon 7D strapped on board, allowing creator Eric Austin to capture some downright-badass pics and video. I want one, badly. [DIY Photograph... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run [Robocopter] The US Navy's unmanned "Fire Scout" helicopter was out minding its own business on a trial run, when its home base warship detected a suspicious speedboat on radar. That's when Robocopter kicked into high... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Gunshot Location System Helps Helicopter Pilots Know Whom They Annoyed [Military] You're in a military helicopter and flying through enemy territory. Someone's shooting at you, but you can't retaliate or escape because you don't know where the shots are coming from. Bet you wish you ha... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: What Lies Beneath Edition [Remainders] In today's Remainders: things lurking below the surface. Literally, a fuel cell-powered fish. Less literally, ISP's seething contempt for the FCC's new National Broadband Plan. Also: Samsung's David Lee R... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Motorized Lego Technic Avatar Helicopter is Grounded—For Now [Lego] Give this Lego Avatar helicopter a few aerodynamic tweaks, a slightly more powerful engine and a pilot spouting off canned, predictable dialogue, and I could easily see it taking flight, literally, to fight the Na'Vi.I mean, the rotors appear to be spinni... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Blade That Would Make Helicopters Almost Silent [Helicopters] Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade that attenuates this problem. It's called Blue Edge, and—as you can hear—it works b... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	MIT Flyfire Robot Swarm Concept Could Create 3D LED Displays in the Sky [Robots] A gaggle of MIT inventors are presently working to create a swarm of micro LED-equipped heli-robots that would hover autonomously in the sky and create massive works of floating 3D artwork. The coming apocalypse, it just got prettier!The program, called F... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Impressive RCX-4 Helicopter Will Share the Sad Same Fate as Dak [Knockoffs] For many X-Wings in the Star Wars universe, the end came as a spectacular explosion on the field of battle. Not so much for this RCX-4 helicopter. For it, the end will no doubt arrive as a boring ol' lawsuit. First spied at CES, hovering in the air and op... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How Do You Evacuate a Huge Cougar Helicopter from the Battlefield [Helicopters] With the "biggest, most powerful helicopter ever to have gone into production"—Wikipedia says—that's how. Here you have the mythical Russian Mi-26 sling-loading and taking away a NATO AS532 Cougar, hit in battle in Afghanistan. [Flight Glob... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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