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One even drove the length of Helmand in an unarmoured Land Rover to seek out the truth Too few troops were sent, too lightly armed, without sufficient helicopters to do the job. Proof of this is that by 2010 the province was so angry that about Show-goers will be able to discover at first-hand Airbus Helicopters’ innovative solutions for preparing the future of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) with a mock-up of its new high-speed demonstrator at the Clean Sky booth. The future of unmanned We came up with that, because we were struggling with the issue to how to get the rover off the lander. We called it sky crane in honor of the sky crane tech used with Sikorsky helicopters. Early on, Sikorsky gave us advice about precision craning Nasa's new rover is going to the most scientifically exciting flatter ground between Aeolis Mons and the crater's rim. This is where Sky Crane comes in. In the same way army helicopters can place jeeps into war zones, so Sky Crane is designed to If all goes according to plan on Saturday, a rocket carrying Curiosity to the sky cranes used by helicopters to insert heavy equipment in inaccessible spots on Earth. No bouncing air bags like those used for the Mars Pathfinder lander and rover So Curiosity, after being slowed in its descent by parachutes, will be lowered softly — NASA hopes — on long bridles using a sky crane technique modeled after those used by helicopters. Once on the ground, NASA intends for the rover to spend one .

NASA will attempt a new type of landing using a so-called sky crane system. The parachute will detach and a rocket-powered platform will fire its engines, then lower the rover to the ground on a tether similar to the way hovering heavy-lift helicopters .