September 20 2010
The Navy says it is about to resume flights of the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, reports the Navy Times.
The UAV flights are scheduled to resume on Sept. 20.
The Fire Scouts were grounded after operators lost control of one on Aug. 2 and it entered restricted airspace around Washington, D.C.
The Navy had been flying the helicopters out of Webster Field, part of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., but the flights will now take place in Yuma, Ariz.
Flights are...
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