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Boeing's blade-stopping 'Dragonfly' scheduled for first flight in '02

When a helicopter's rotor stops in mid-flight, it often is a prelude to disaster. But an experimental aircraft being developed jointly by Boeing and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is scheduled to do exactly that next year. The Dragonfly will be a unique hybrid aircraft - a...

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