Posted on Feb 9, 2022

For the first time, Black Hawk helicopter flies without anyone aboard

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WASHINGTON — A UH-60 Alpha-model Black Hawk helicopter flew for the first time entirely unmanned as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, Sikorsky announced Feb. 8.

Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky and DARPA have been working on ALIAS for roughly six years, but have always had a pilot in the aircraft just in case, even if the helicopter performed the flight entirely on its own.

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For the first time, Black Hawk helicopter flies without anyone aboard

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Good share, technically airliners could do the same, flight crew really there to monitor the automated functions and perform the things that the aircraft could do by itself but the FAA won't authorize.

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