Mr. Grahame-Smith and Mr. Katzenberg, 29, fly a remote control helicopter around the office and ride motorcycles to work together.
The country's rugged terrain and poor road network also slows down overland journeys, whereas a helicopter can fly anywhere, at speed, with flexibility.
To verify that the code works, the Kraays had to commission a helicopter to fly them over their own farm, allowing them to scan it while hovering hundreds of feet above.
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This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.
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They are the biggest purchaser of the revolutionary Osprey tiltrotor, which pivots its engines so it can take off like a helicopter, but fly as far and fast as a fixed-wing plane.
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Investigators say they plan to fly around the disaster site in a helicopter equipped with a high-resolution camera, and they're using sophisticated computer models to recreate the bridge collapse, which may reveal clues about how it happened.
"We did have a Coast Guard helicopter crew fly for 60 miles up the shoreline there to see if they could spot any environmental impact and they weren't able to find anything, " he said, adding a Coast Guard boat surveying 15 miles south of the site also detected nothing.
The Vatican, however, revealed some details of his final day as pope, saying he would attend a morning farewell ceremony with his cardinals and then fly off by helicopter at 5 p.m. to the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo.
The move to allow some aircraft to fly again was agreed at a meeting of the oil and gas industry's Helicopter Safety Steering Group in Aberdeen on Thursday.
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U.S. sources said a Special Forces helicopter crashed late Wednesday in Iraq's southern no-fly zone before the initial attack on Baghdad.
Nearly everyone could hire a helicopter or boat, make their own needs assessments and distributions, and 'fly the flag'.
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