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New Military Helicopter Design Video!Bell Helicopter has unveiled what may become what everyone hoped the V-22 Osprey would be, a tiltrotor able to operate at high altitudes for long ranges and with easily managed downwash. The new aircraft, to be known as the V-280 Valor, is the company’s offering for the Army’s Future Vertical Lift technology demonstration program. FVL is a science and technology program to develop four classes of advanced aircraft – light, medium, heavy and ultra — that can take off and land vertically. The first of the four to be built would be a medium-lift aircraft known as the Joint Multirole, a vehicle that could be adapted for various missions. The Valor is aimed at the Joint Multirole offering. Although this video is very futuristic the need exists and the technology is available! Talk about nowhere to hide! Helicopters today are fast and very loud. The V-280 solves alot of these issues with a near stealth design. Watch the video to see the future of the helicopter! Watch the movie and you be the judge!Video Drones in the FutureGovernment legal guidelines passed last year requires the Federal aviation administration to prepare a plan to open U.S. skies in 2015 to extensive use of unmanned aircraft through public organizations and private industry. Possible marketplaces include farming, shipping, oil research, commercial fishing, major league sports, film and television production, environmental monitoring, meteorological studies, law enforcement and the news media. The aviation and aerospace business research firm Teal Group estimated last year that unmanned aircraft will double over the next 10 years, to nearly $90 billion, with the U.S. accounting for sixty two % of study and further development spending and fifty five % of purchasing spending. For decades, model aircraft enthusiasts have been allowed to fly small, remote-controlled planes up to four hundred feet and at least a quarter mile from any airport terminal. While public agencies can get permission to use unarmed drones, all commercial use remains banned. “As a enthusiast – I can do whatever I want right now, within remote-control guidelines,” said Bateson, the aerial photographer. “But as soon as you turn it into a business … the FAA says you are violating the national airspace.” Bateson flies a customized 48-inch-wide Styrofoam fixed-wing remote-controlled aircraft that cost about $20,000 – compared with up to $1 million for a helicopter. He said his aircraft has logged 1,800 miles and has recorded 60 hours of high-resolution video. He said he has never run into trouble with the FAA. Patrick Egan, an unmanned aircraft consultant to the U.S. military and editor of sUAS News, a drone news website, said the FAA’s commercial ban on drones is unenforceable. “How do you possibly enforce these regulations?” he said. Earlier this year, Connecticut marketing firm ImageMark Strategy and Design launched a drone-powered aerial photo and video service to offer to its existing customers, which include universities, golf resorts and real estate firms. Partner Scott Benton said his organization spent about $20,000 in remote-controlled multi-rotor copters equipped to carry video cameras or SLR digital cameras with swivel tilts. Benton said he wasn’t even aware of FAA restrictions on commercial drone use until after he purchased all the equipment. He said their business plans to charge customers for croping and editing and post-production work, not the drone flights. Many professional drone operators offer comparable justifications. Some say these people operate only on non-public property. Others say they are selling data, not drone flight time. Still others say they will simply take their own chances. “Honestly?” said one commercial operator, who requested privacy to protect his company. “My hope is that I’m far afield enough and small enough potatoes to the Federal aviation administration that I can fly under the radar on this one.” Drones may also be vulnerable to hacking. Last summer, Department of Homeland Security officials challenged Texas aerospace engineering professor Todd Humphreys and his class to try to “spoof” a DHS drone’s GPS system. GPS “spoofing” is a technique by which a vehicle’s GPS receiver can be deceived and taken over by a slightly more potent transmission that mimics the attributes of the original signal – essentially an airborne hack. Humphreys and his college students succeeded in hacking the drone and took control of its flight path. If a college class “can spoof the GPS, what can other nation states or terrorist groups do?” Representative Paul Broun (R-Ga.) asked at a recent congressional hearing on domestic drones. CHINESE COPIES Some U.S. drone designers worry about the consequences of what they see as a slow U.S. response to a rapidly developing technology. “The Chinese are going to kill us,” said Texas pilot Gene Robinson, who spent $20,000 designing an innovative fixed-wing drone for search-and-rescue missions. “They have copied every single design, including mine, that they can get their hands on.” Robinson said he put in place Web-tracking software on his drone design Web page and then observed last spring as a Chinese design company “spent a month on my Web page … reverse-engineered my design” and began marketing mass-produced copies in December – for $169. New Ship Model Superstore Open!Lots of new models, new look, faster checkout. www.shipmodelsuperstore.com Check for new items available now. Great prices! Fast shipping insured and great packaging. One of the finest builders in the business. High quality models and save thousands of dollars with our great pricing! New nautical items category adding products daily! Beat the rush and order your magnificent ship model today! Violent Storm Sandy reveals 90 year old ship wreck!A wrecked schooner was long buried on Fire Island — a barrier island off of Long Island, N.Y. — now lays fully exposed following Hurricane Sandy’s destruction of the beach. The weathered hull of the shipwreck lies about 4 miles (6 kilometers) east of Davis Park, between Skunk Hollow and Whalehouse Point, in the Fire Island National Seashore, as first reported by Newsday. The remains are thought to be the Bessie White, more than 90 years old, said Paula Valentine, public affairs specialist for the park. Historic photographs and news accounts don’t agree on the year of the ship’s grounding, but here is an outline of its story: The ship, a four-mast Canadian schooner, went aground in heavy fog about a mile west of Smith’s Point, Long Island, in either 1919 or 1922. The men escaped in two boats. One capsized in the surf, injuring one crew member, but everyone (including the ship’s cat) made it to shore safely. But the crew couldn’t save the 3-year-old ship or its tons of coal. The ship was salvaged in the following weeks. The bus-size ship’s skeleton has poked up through the sand before, such as after a nor’easter in 2006, exposing long boards and metal pegs, Valentine told OurAmazingPlanet. The dune that used to bury the wreck eroded back an average of 72 feet, said U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist Cheryl Hapke, who is studying the changes on Fire Island. Archaeologists and park officials are documenting the shipwreck before the sea reburies it with sand, Valentine said. “There’s so little of it left we may not be not be able to determine which ship it actually is, but we may be able to learn more about its age,” she said. “It’s just a rare treat to see something exposed.” Fire Island is a barrier island, a natural system that takes the brunt of the damage during powerful hurricanes and winter storms. Although the remainder of the ship does not look like much there is allot of significant information to be discovered from the remains. Nearly 100 years old it is amazing how nature can unveil something it once hid. New signature line of models coming soon!Don’t miss our new line of signature series aircraft models coming to our store soon! The P-51 Tuskegee “Kitten” signed by Charles McGee will be sold exclusively on www.militarymodelsonline.com. Our price for this one of a kind signed beauty? How about $269.95! The retail value of this model is $399.00. This specific P51 model is painted as “Kitten” or Charles McGee’s airplane. McGee was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states still were subject to racist Jim Crow laws. The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government. The Tuskegee Airmen were subject to racial discrimination, both within and outside the army. Despite these adversities, they trained and flew with distinction. McGee was a career officer in the United States Air Force for 30 years, he holds an Air Force record of 409 fighter combat missions flown in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Certificate of Authenticity included.. This handcrafted airplane model is painstakingly built from Philippine mahogany by our skilled craftsmen with a wealth of detail and makes a great gift for any veteran, aviation enthusiast or history buff.  Look at this signature work of art aircraft model Look for a new look and feel for our Aircraft Model web siteComing soon a new look and feel for our Aircraft Model Web site. I hope you guys have checked out the site recently as all models have a coupon for $50.00 off. Go to www.militarymodelsonline.com and enjoy the savings! www.shipmodelsuperstore.com is also getting a completly new store and look and feel! Stop by and take a look, I hope evryone had a great summer! Model man C-130J-30 Hercules Wood Model Plane Detailed like the real aircraft
Several new models added to the site, the star is the C-130J-30 Hercules Wood Model Plane! Enjoy our great pricing this month, sale ends soon! New year new models!I hope you had a great holiday, I know I did. We added a P-38J Lightning, a B-17G Flying fortress and several other new military model aircraft to the military models online web site. We also added allot of restocked items to the www.shipmodelsuperstore.com web site too. New models will be coming in and being added weekly so keep your eye out for that airplane model or ship model you have been waiting for. We have been working hard to find more super cool ultra realistic airplane models and new ship models made from wood! Our detailed models made it over seas to Australia this year for the holidays and we are blessed with our lives and our hobbies. We just wanted to say thanks for your past patronage and hope you have a great new year! If you have not been to the stores in a while take advantage of our low prices and high quality ship, airplane models and hundreds of other items we have on the web. The teams at www.militarymodelsonline.com and www.shipmodelsuperstore.com
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