Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands
Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …