2008
Amber designer Abe Karem approached Darpa in 1998 with a concept for a long-endurance unmanned rotorcraft with a rigid optimum-speed rotor able to vary its speed to minimize fuel consumption. The A160 Hummingbird first flew in January 2002. Boeing acquired its developer, Frontier Systems, in 2004...
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