San Francisco, Calif. (The Examiner) - Research copters owned by the federal government will conduct daytime flyovers in The City, Oakland and Pacifica; at times, the twin-engine Bell 412 will hover just 300 feet above the ground.

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Baltimore, Md. (northbaltimore.patch.com) - Starting last week, the Baltimore City POlice Department started receiving new helicopters to replace the fleet that has been in service since 2001. The old helicopters have been disassembled and traded in.

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Winnipeg (Times Colonist) - Manitoba RCMP have joined the growing list of police forces using tiny, remote-controlled helicopters as eyes in the sky. The one-metre-long devices come equipped with high-definition cameras that can stream video and photographs to officers on the ground. They give the Mounties a bird's-eye view of traffic accident and crime scenes.

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AVweb - A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed an autonomous airplane that is able to follow an internal map and navigate successfully, avoiding obstacles, without the use of GPS.

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HeliHub - The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans; and the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, announce that the Government of Canada is setting the stage for the purchase of new helicopters for the Canadian Coast Guard.

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Wallace, Idaho (The Sacramento Bee) - A north-central Idaho man who prosecutors say shot at a helicopter nearly two years ago is scheduled to stand trial in December.

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Joint Forces Training Base aircrews have reported several incidents of ground-to-air laser interference with aircraft.

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air-attack.com - U.S. aerospace giant Boeing has won a $1.4 billion deal to supply India with 22 helicopter gunships, beating off competition from Russia's Mil Mi-28.

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Penzance, England (Falmouth Packet) - The future of Penzance's helicopter links to the Isles of Scilly looks secure after Tesco announced it has withdrawn its opposition for a new British International Helicopters site in the town.

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Ontario, Canada (Ottawa Business Journal) - After spending six years developing sensor applications to alert flight controllers, aircraft designers, manufacturers and aircraft pilots to aircraft defects, the National Research Council is searching for private-sector partners to commercialize the technology.

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